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Cancer injection eliminates tumors in mice
http://www.fox2detroit. ^ | FEB 05 2018 02:32 PM EST

Posted on 07/04/2018 5:45:48 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK

(FOX 26) - Scientists have taken a giant step towards curing cancer, according to a new study.

Stanford university researchers have found a way to clear cancer in mice with immune-system stimulating injections.

The report published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal last week shows promise in terms of destroying tumors.

The new approach is a form of immunotherapy, which uses the body's own disease-fighting power to battle cancer.

Scientists report using compound injections to effectively eradicate cancer tumors in mice.

According to the study, their approach worked startlingly well -- even in mice who had lymphoma in two different areas of their body.

They injected minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice and saw that it eliminated all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases.

"In this way, 87 of 90 mice were cured of the cancer. Although the cancer recurred in three of the mice, the tumors again regressed after a second treatment. The researchers saw similar results in mice bearing breast, colon and melanoma tumors." It's been tested on mice with lymphoma, breast, colon and melanoma tumors.

A clinical trial is being planned to test the method on human lymphoma patients.


TOPICS: Education; History; Reference; Science
KEYWORDS: cancer; cancertherapy; immunotherapy; injection; medicine; mice; mouse
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STANFORD Medicine - Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice
1 posted on 07/04/2018 5:45:48 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Do mice get prostate cancer? I, and one in six older men, wonder?


2 posted on 07/04/2018 5:53:54 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Cancer injection

It does not sound appealing.

3 posted on 07/04/2018 5:55:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If you beleive the dog, then take his advice.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Prayers up for you.


4 posted on 07/04/2018 5:55:43 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

What were the “two immune-stimulating agents”?


5 posted on 07/04/2018 5:57:08 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: rdl6989

Thanks. So far, apparent remission through radiation. But you never know how long that lasts. Five years? Ten? Twenty?


6 posted on 07/04/2018 5:58:59 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
An announcement like this from Stanford is potentially important.In the world of medical research Standford,along with Harvard,Columbia,Hopkins and Mayo Clinic,is very definitely “the big time”.
7 posted on 07/04/2018 6:01:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Unless the immune system enhancement can be strictly limited to targeting cancer, this doesn’t seem helpful to those who must take immunosuppressants.


8 posted on 07/04/2018 6:01:33 PM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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“Cancer injection eliminates tumors in mice”

And in 300 years the government approves it.


9 posted on 07/04/2018 6:02:22 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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And in 300 years the government approves it.

It only takes a few decades to get a drug through the approval process.

I want to see the details of this. There are so many diseases grouped as "cancer"... it would be awesome if even a few of them could be cured like this.

On the other hand, this treatment has cured cancer in mice. I remember a professor saying, 20 years ago, that if the goal of research is to cure cancer in mice, we've already reached that goal.

10 posted on 07/04/2018 6:10:48 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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An announcement like this from Stanford is potentially important.In the world of medical research Standford,along with Harvard,Columbia,Hopkins and Mayo Clinic,is very definitely “the big time”.

Good point.

11 posted on 07/04/2018 6:12:27 PM PDT by FreeReign
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Either it’s reprogramming the T-cells or a combo of “demasking” the cancer cell while inhibiting its anti T-cell barrier(s).


12 posted on 07/04/2018 6:13:10 PM PDT by ak267
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To: Architect of Avalon

My question exactly. “Immune stimulating” can refer to good things to empower the immune system, the biome of bacteria working within us, or it can be some agent a la vaccine adjuvants, that stress the immune system and lead to short term gain, long term harm (something medicine looooooooves).


13 posted on 07/04/2018 6:17:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ClearCase_guy

Having watched helplessly whilst my wife died of melanoma, and now having a dear friend afflicted with the same devil disease, I am praying this works.


14 posted on 07/04/2018 6:18:18 PM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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Oh, great!

Now on top of everything else wrong with the world, the scientists are creating a race of SUPER RATS!

/sarc off

This is actually good news...

15 posted on 07/04/2018 6:24:03 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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Remember, our Great President signed the bill allowing those who are badly afflicted to get experimental treatment if they desire..


16 posted on 07/04/2018 6:24:26 PM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’ve heard that pretty much all men will develop prostate cancer if they manage to live long enough. Hope yours stays in remission.


17 posted on 07/04/2018 6:31:27 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

That’s basically how vaccines work,


18 posted on 07/04/2018 6:34:26 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Thanks, I appreciate that.

It got Dad, so at least I had an eye out for it.


19 posted on 07/04/2018 6:35:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Interesting but if I had a penny for every FR thread reporting a major breakthrough in cancer treatment...


20 posted on 07/04/2018 6:40:55 PM PDT by fso301
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