Posted on 07/11/2013 11:38:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
New wonder drug matches and kills all kinds of cancer — human testing starts 2014
By MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN Last Updated: 2:03 PM, July 11, 2013 Posted: 12:55 PM, July 11, 2013
Stanford researchers are on track to begin human trials of a potentially potent new weapon against cancer, and would-be participants are flooding in following the Post’s initial report on the discovery.
The progress comes just two months after the groundbreaking study by Dr Irv Weissman, who developed an antibody that breaks down a cancer's defense mechanisms in the body.
A protein called CD47 tells the body not to "eat" the cancer, but the antibody developed by Dr Weissman blocks CD47 and frees up immune cells called macrophages — which can then engulf the deadly cells.
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It may be made available in about twenty years.
Tell me about it, especially with all the money in cancer treatments and with Obamacommie care coming up? Ah ha ha ha! I’ll say 100 years.
I wish them well. In the meantime, check out a company called Cellceutix (CTIX). They are in clinical trials wth terminal patients and are targeting the ‘angel’ gene as they call it. Multiple targets.
And then only to Party Members.
These are the types of things I expect to see repeated over and over for the next thirty years or so. It’s going to become so commonplace, we’ll take it for granted before long.
Fantastic!
There is still a drug just sitting out there derived from a gene of an Italian family basically immune to heart disease. The gene basically cleans the arteries and was featured on 20/20 in the late 1990s.
Drug testing was almost miraculous, but it was sold to another company, then another, and that slowed it down. Who knows what’s happening now.
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testing starts 2014? not holding my breath we see this anytime soon, if it works, big pharm either will grab it for profit , or squash it if they feel they cant get enuff..
go alternative meds....
Wonder how long they been sitting on this ? years i suspect maybe even Decades !
No expertise in the area, but have been beaten to my knees by some "helpful" drugs - occasionally, ALL the side effects rear their heads at once...
The money in heart disease is what’s happening. Call me paranoid, especially with this regime, but there is no way they are going to allow a multi-billion dollar industry be wiped out by one single cure or treatment. I don’t know what’s more common today: The 10 gabillion ads for pharmaceutical drugs or the ads for cancer and heart hospitals. Just the amount of ads they put out there everyday should give people an idea how much money is involved.
Let the macrophage feast begin.
Yeah, after the American Cancer Society gets their due compensation and has milked the disease for every available penny.
Are you a stray from the DU?
God forbid that a legitimate private business be interested in a profitable venture. How else do you think the majority of drugs are developed in this country? Through a mutual collaboration between government and a non-profit group? Get real.
dying cures cancer in fact it cures everything
Where has all the trust gone?
What, no one believes that there is good being done for the benefit of mankind?
That's the way it works in this once great country as everybody & everything is bought or corrupt.
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Lou you misunderstand me. Im as conservative as it gets, and big pharm can make as much cash as it wants, just like any other biz.
im just talkin about the whole concept of getting a drug to market if it works, if this were to work, and help to really stop cancer, great, but we all know how long it takes to get to market.
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