'Holy Grail' cancer vaccine that blasts tumours in weeks hailed as huge leap in fighting disease

Mail online ^ | 5/17/10 | Daniel Martin

[Nachum]

Scientists have developed a new jab which they hope will be a 'holy grail' cancer cure.

The treatment, which will be tested on British patients over the next few months, can reverse and even cure malignant melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer.

If it proves successful in large- scale trials, there are hopes that new forms could be developed to fight other forms of cancer, such as breast and prostate.

Experts say it may even stop people getting cancer in the first place.

[Nachum]

The treatment, developed by the company Scancell,..

A company? You mean like a business? A drug company that wants to ....gasp... make a profit?

[RaiderRose]

I’m not going to get too excited...pretty soon they find out it causes cancer. /sarc

Seriously though, I hope it works. That would be an amazing step forward!

[Red Badger]

A profit is without owner in it’s own country...........

[ClearCase_guy]

We will crush them. We will hunt these scientists down. And their families!

[mo]

If it really works...they’ll socialize it....and restrict it to the benighted elite...and be damned the peons and peasants..

[rwfromkansas]

This is one sensationalistic article.

I have seen similar articles, and they typically contain massive grains of salt, like this will likely just treat, not sure etc.

We will see.

[bilhosty]

I think they already have a way to cure melanomas. they simply remove them. that cures unless they have spread and I presume this cant cure a cancer after it has spread. They did not make that clear.

[DonaldC]

“I am legend” ping... hehehe

[ZX12R]

Scientists have developed a new jab which they hope will be a 'holy grail' cancer cure.

This is always how it starts. A new vaccine to cure cancer, and the scientists are rejoicing in their own magnificence. Then...the first human to zombie transitions occur.

[pogo101]

"There are some who call me ... vaccine."

[RichInOC]

...and then there’s the “Black Knight” strain that got weeded out in trials, because it killed the cancer cells, but it also caused the patients’ arms and legs to drop off.

[dangerdoc]

I remember years ago hearing a researcher saying the problem with the cure for cancer is that cancer is not one disease, it is about 500 different diseases.

[GonzoGOP]

Take two of these and call me in the morning.

[camerongood210]

[Gorzaloon]

This is one sensationalistic article.

I have seen similar articles, and they typically contain massive grains of salt, like this will likely just treat, not sure etc.

The Brit press do this every week. Every week, a new cruel false hope miracle promise of which nothing is ever heard again.

Soon, we will have them here, when we have a National Health Service. It makes the victims feel better for a moment, and keeps them from outright rebellion.

Watch and see if this story ever surfaces anywhere else. Bets?

[theDentist]

It's a beer!

[Wilum]

“And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”

[Little Ray]

Edward Llewellyn:
The Douglas Convolution
The Bright Companion
Prelude to Chaos
Salvage and Destroy

A cancer preventative and cure (and contraceptive) causes the offspring of female users to be sterile resulting a population crash.