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Measles used to put cancer into remission [Game Changer in medicine?]
CNN ^ | 5/15/14 | Jacque Wilson and William Hudson

Posted on 05/16/2014 5:38:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A woman with an incurable cancer is now in remission, thanks, doctors say, to a highly concentrated dose of the measles virus.

For 10 years, Stacy Erholtz, 49, battled multiple myeloma, a deadly cancer of the blood. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say she had received every type of chemotherapy drug available....

Then researchers gave her and five other multiple myeloma patients a dose of a highly concentrated, lab-engineered measles virus similar to the measles vaccine. In fact, the dose Erholtz received contained enough of the virus to vaccinate approximately 10 million people.

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The other patients had less success. But the results for thus woman are promising.

Interesting.

1 posted on 05/16/2014 5:38:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

There have been cases of people with terminal cancer experiencing sudden complete remission after a viral infection since the 1960s, if not before.


2 posted on 05/16/2014 5:41:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

wow


3 posted on 05/16/2014 5:41:50 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When will people learn that chemo kills healthy cells in addition to cancer cells? Oh wait, drug companies make billions off of chemo drugs.


4 posted on 05/16/2014 5:45:21 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What I want to know is what happened to the Draco Cancer Cure?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/opinions/76503

There a bit of news in 2011 and then it disappeared.


5 posted on 05/16/2014 6:04:28 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Google Laetrile, see if you can find anyone who is using Laetrile whose cancer has gotten worse.


6 posted on 05/16/2014 6:05:51 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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To: Little Ray

I think a lot of these treatments can’t get past the FDA to even have a real chance at being tested.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 6:07:40 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Steely Tom
There have been cases of people with terminal cancer experiencing sudden complete remission after a viral infection since the 1960s, if not before.

If a persons immune system for any reason decides to go after the cancer cells, that will result in so-called miracle cures.
That is the key to beating cancer-getting the person's immune system to reject it.

Right now, after well over 50 years of intense research, involving the best brains on the planet, and untold billions of dollars spent , the bottom line on cancer is:

They don't know what causes it.
They don't know how to cure it.
They don't know how to prevent it.

What they are into is, TREATMENT, and more types of TREATMENTS. -Tom

8 posted on 05/16/2014 6:16:19 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine
Google Laetrile, see if you can find anyone who is using Laetrile whose cancer has gotten worse.

A member of my extended family went to Mexico for such treatment of his colon cancer. It got worse and he died in his early 50s.
9 posted on 05/16/2014 6:18:01 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Little Ray

Or the hemp oil cure?


10 posted on 05/16/2014 6:25:35 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag
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To: Capt. Tom

the bottom line on cancer is:

They don’t know what causes it.
They don’t know how to cure it.
They don’t know how to prevent it.


I’ve often thought this myself.

Also thinking, possible explanation, if someone actually came up with a cure a 100 million dollar payoff would shut up the researcher and the cure could be put on the back burner for 50 years until it becomes profitable to the new Corporate owner.


11 posted on 05/16/2014 6:27:34 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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To: PatriotGirl827

Save to read


12 posted on 05/16/2014 6:44:19 AM PDT by PatriotGirl827 (O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Very interesting.


13 posted on 05/16/2014 6:44:24 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: Little Ray

DRACO is still being studied.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRACO_%28antiviral%29

I think it’s important to realize that there *can be no* “magic bullet” against cancer, for the reason that “cancer fights back”. It develops work-arounds and defenses against techniques used to fight it.

For this reason, there is a rule of thumb in Oncology, called the “rule of three” when fighting a given cancer: that you have to use three different techniques at the same time, to overwhelm that cancer’s defenses.

Cancer is so effective at fighting back that it times, it acts almost if it was intelligent.

So the bottom line to this measles therapy is that even if it is a smashing success, it will just be another weapon in the arsenal.


14 posted on 05/16/2014 6:48:59 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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15 posted on 05/16/2014 6:49:49 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: SoFloFreeper

It’s how the movie I Am Legend starts. Measles as a cure for cancer. Life imitating art?


16 posted on 05/16/2014 7:01:34 AM PDT by MinstrelBoy (If you're a conservative today, you're a hero.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“In fact, the dose Erholtz received contained enough of the virus to vaccinate approximately 10 million people.”

I’m not sure what a single dose of the vaccine costs, but say its around $10. That would make this cure cost @$100,000,000.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 8:32:34 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

DCA is another public domain drug that is more than effective on many different cancers that’s never going to see the light of day in the US, thanks to the FDA.


18 posted on 05/16/2014 8:39:45 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"A member of my extended family went to Mexico for such treatment of his colon cancer. It got worse and he died in his early 50s."

I'm sorry to hear that, but, everyone I know who is using apricot kernels and apricots is cancer free.

19 posted on 05/16/2014 9:43:45 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (Be kept informed on Maine's secession, sign up at freemaine@hushmail.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Thank you. I figured it had been “disappeared” by pharma companies.


20 posted on 05/16/2014 12:08:21 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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