Yes I did. Especially allowing patients access to trials. Then I read today (yesterday?) vaccine in rats that cures cancer.
1) Solid tumors only so far.
2) Pinky and the Brain may object: mice are similar to people, but they are still different.
I agree in general that stimulating the patient's *own* immune system (CAR-T cells) is a great approach: but it costs $500,000. I don't know how much standardization of processes/equipment could bring that cost down.
When David Kessler was in charge of the FDA, a doctor had done research on cancer and an analysis of proteins not being produced by the body that might be a contributing factor. There is a good documentary on this on Amazon. The doctor’s name is something like Bursynsky.
He synthesized the protein, and administered it to some cancer patients. There were no side effects, since it was a protein naturally produced in normal people, only missing in cancer patients. His results were uncommonly good.
To the point the FDA tried to jail him after setting him up to have his work stolen from him. He survived it all and is treating people in Atlanta, I believe, with stunning results.
Back in the early 2000’s, two Canadian doctors asked whether Type 1 diabetes might not be caused by an inability of insulin to leave the pancreas, caused somehow by swelling of the Islets of Langerhorn (elements of the pancreas that produce and secret insulin).
They treated rats bred with type 1 diabetes with capscasin (excellent anti-inflammatory and active ingredient of hot sauce). Rats were ‘cured’, in that the rats started naturally secreting insulin and metabolizing normally without any outside aids.
There are other well-documented cases of compounds that have cured other intractable diseases.
Those two Canadian doctors sort of just quit the business, by the way. Stopped doing research and then stopped being doctors.
Many examples of this.
I hope this is what Q may be referring to.
By the way John Perry Barlow wrote many songs for the Grateful Dead, was an ardent supporter of Dick Cheney, who then went on to be an active opponent of the same.
He had been in ill health of late, but not that ill. There’s been a lot of accidentally shooting oneself in the face lately, and Amtrak trains going aglee, and during the morning commute yesterday they did an Emergency Broadcast Test - at drive time.
An entire asset class disappeared on Monday, and on Tuesday one of China’s biggest companies misses a $200M payment and is in technical default (triggering event) on $15B on Wednesday.
None of this, mind you, is connected.