Posted on 08/25/2018 10:28:29 PM PDT by 867V309
“Some people live longer, many live shorter,” he observes. “At the end of the day, there are very, very few long-term survivors.”
Help may soon be on the way, however.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Help may soon be on the way, however.
looks like we dodged a bullet...
For whatever reason, cancer cells trick the body into not attacking and quickly destroying them. Medical science is working on that approach now with very positive prospects it seems.
“Missed it by *that* much!”
/Maxwell Smart
“According to Informa Pharma Intelligence, a market research firm, there are currently 87 experimental therapies in clinical trials that target glioblastoma. Some drugs are vaccines, some involve gene therapy, some activate the immune system to fight the cancer, and some rely on monoclonal antibodies.”
The point of the article is that there is hope for potential effective treatments.
They have been saying that for twenty years.
LOL.
I remember a thread on FR many years ago about an article saying this may be the last generation that won’t live forever, referring to medical advances that are going to make deat obsolete.
A FReeper replied he had missed the grand lottery by one number that day, too!
But it may actually happen.
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LOL! ordinary baking soda wipes out brain cancer.
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A cure is “right around the corner”. Still.
“it seems.”
Nobody gets out alive. McCain wasn’t ancient but he was old and lived a long life. Way too long in the Senate however.
There have been promising trials in immunotherapy. Just being able to strip the cancer cells of their invisibility to the body’s immune system and thus be subject to attack by it, looks like it will be a major step forward in cancer treatment.
Help may soon be on the way, however.
They act like some day we can live forever thanks to modern medicine.
Well, thank God because we all will live forever and He gave us the option of doing so so in a far better place.
Even if that came to pass, people will still die from being hit by cars, falling off mountains, slipping in their bathtub, murdered, etc.
I have no doubt that a day will come when physical death becomes a personal choice. In that time, people will routinely have worn out parts and even whole systems replaced, as they break or wear out.
Eventually, even the rate of aging will be slowed to a crawl, or even stopped altogether, through genetic engineering and manipulation.
Imagine indefinitely freezing the body’s aging process at age 25 to 30. Think of how wise you’d be after two or three hundred years, with every bodily function running at peak performance levels.
Imagine everyone around you living just as long, with the same health, vigor, and mental capabilities as you. I can’t help but think our world would be such a better place for us all.
I have no doubt that a day will come when physical death becomes a personal choice. In that time, people will routinely have worn out parts and even whole systems replaced, as they break or wear out.
my girlfriend, back in the late 80's, believed she'd be able to fly to the moon. :)
One of the best lines in the movie “Cocoon” was by Wilfrod Brimley who said, “Grandparents should never outlive their children”.
I’m fine with that. Don’t want to see my beautiful children and grandchildren go before me. My son and son-in-law both survived combat in Iraq (and Kosovo). They’ve earned a long, healthy and prosperous life.
Cancer killed my father, a WW2 veteran despite the wonderful attempts of a world renown surgeon to save him, and medical postponed my mother’s death to leukemia by over a greatful year (so she could enjoy her grandchildren).
I hope and pray that cures are found very soon for those who have cancer now or will in the future. They deserve to enjoy a healthy future.
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