Posted on 08/07/2023 1:25:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
* The pill works by killing a mutated protein which helps cancers to repair
* Scientists hope it can be used as a standalone therapy or alongside treatments
Scientists have developed a holy grail cancer drug that kills all solid cancer tumors while leaving other cells unharmed.
The new molecule targets a protein present in most cancers that helps tumors grow and multiply in the body.
It is significant because this protein - the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) - was previously thought to be 'undruggable'.
The drug was tested on 70 different cancer cells in the lab - including those derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin, and lung cancer - and was effective against them all.
The pill is the culmination of 20 years of research and development by the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles, one of America's largest cancer centers.
The medicine is codenamed AOH1996 after Anna Olivia Healy, who died in 2005 from a deadly childhood cancer aged nine. Dr Linda Malkas, who leads the research team, met Anna's father just before she died and was inspired to find a cure in her memory.
It comes amid excitement that cancer will be curable within the coming decade, a claim that has been made by the scientists who invented the Pfizer Covid vaccine.
Curing cancer has also been a key goal of President Joe Biden — with his relaunched Cancer Moonshot operation in 2022 aiming to reduce the cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years.
But he was slammed last week for claiming that his administration had 'ended cancer as we know it' - even though there are signs death rates are slowing.
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It’ll be approved by the FDA the day after I die.
I’ve been in the medical field for 40+ years and have seen hundreds of these “miracle drug” articles. Seems they all die a convenient death.
Well, I’ll be....old King pedoPIG-The First, said he was gonna cure cancer.
Looks like he’s gonna do it. /s
We’ll see. I am hopeful this one tests out OK.
As if that dementia patient is in any way responsible for this.
Didn’t Joey the Sniff JUST SAY he cured cancer a day or two ago. I say BS. If cancer was cured WHY ARE DEMOCRATS STILL HERE?????
ya know whats the biggest shame of it all?? The very first thing that popped into my head is if indeed it does work, just how its going to be restricted. being we all know there is no money in a cure. and the upper levels of society will be the only ones living the longest... smmfh...
WE have hope. WE have prayers.
They need to control the DHMO that is found in all cancer cells.
Starvation, violent mob attacks, WWIII, exposure, or federal incarceration, will most likely cause your deff. It won't be cancer.
If it’s FDA approved you’ll die anyway.
Key word “early study” I’ll wait
I’ll die anyway, anyway. If you live long enough, you’re bound to die of something.
What the textbooks usually leave out is that advances in science and technology usually come only after a long trail of failure. In this instance, science finally developed tools that enabled the approach of creating a drug against a molecule essential to solid tumors. Try long enough, get the right tools, and eventually any lock can be picked.
There’s little profit in a cure. The big money is in “treatment”.
I guess some things are possible but most of these things over promise and under deliver letting the cat out of the bag way too early.
Killing cells in a petri dish and leaving healthy cells along is one thing. Administering it to hoomans is another.
I wonder what price they will put on this “saving your life” drug this time?
City of Hope, private not for profit with a $2 million a year CEO.
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Will this drug work on neurofibromatosis (elephant man) patients?
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