[FormerACLUmember]

Cancer cure 'may be available in two years'

Utterly preposterous.

Not to mention cruel and deceitful.

[isom35]

well that was upbeat and optimistic :)

[TheDon]

Those of the strongest participants killed close to 97 per cent of the cancer cells in 24 hours, while those of the weakest killed only two per cent.

The abilities of the cells of participants aged over 50 were lower than average, and those of cancer patients even lower.

Perhaps, perhaps not. We shall see.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Utterly preposterous.

Not to mention cruel and deceitful.”

I agree. This may or may not be an additional effective bullet in the armamentarium against cancer, but it is unethical to hype things this way. Cancer is so very complex. People need to understand that every cell in our bodies has the same DNA instruction set, but some cells become heart muscle, some become skeletal muscle, some become neurons, some become the lining of the air sacs in your lung, etc. etc. etc. We don’t understand fully how this happens, and are just now starting to look at how some cells (e.g. stem cells) can maintain the ability to become other cell types. Cancer is in some ways the reverse of this process. Cancer occurs when cells that are already differentiated go back to a more primitive state. The mechanisms that define going in either direction are very complex and poorly understood.

[Timmy]

Yeah. They should work on polio and smallpox first.