Posted on 01/21/2020 8:11:29 PM PST by bitt
New treatment for killing cancer cells may have accidentally been discovered by a group of British scientists, according to reports.
Cardiff University’s research team found a T-Cell that attaches itself onto human cancers, and kills them while ignoring healthy cells. Although in its early stages of development, the treatment successfully destroys bone, lung, breast, colon, prostate, and other cancers, The Telegraph reported. (RELATED: Alex Trebek Announces He Was Diagnosed With Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer)
Originally, researchers were only looking for immune cells that were capable of fighting bacteria, before they discovered the T-Cell virus. Their findings were made available on Monday.
“There’s a chance here to treat every patient,” Professor Andrew Sewell of Cardiff University told the BBC. “Previously nobody believed this could be possible. It raises the prospect of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ cancer treatment, a single type of T-cell that could be capable of destroying many different types of cancers across the population.”
A T-cell is a white blood cell in the immune system that fights off cancers and helps prevent the body from getting infected. Researchers note the receptors on the newly discovered T-cells may be able to locate cancers by using the molecule known as MR1. They believe this molecule could be alerting the T-cells of the infected metabolism present on cancerous cells.
“We are the first to describe a T-cell that finds MR1 in cancer cells—that hasn’t been done before, this is the first of its kind,” the studies co-author Gary Dolton said to the BBC.
In the past, researchers have gained knowledge of the human immune system through the growth of cancer immunotherapy. One of the most successful being that of CAR-T, better known as a drug made by genetically modifying an individuals T-Cell’s to destroy cancerous regions of the body, as reported by Newsweek.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
[You won’t hear much more about this. Too much money in treating cancer and in researching eliminating cancer to actually eliminate it.]
You’re forgetting something. Trump killed the deep state.
Right up there with that Cold Fusion the Utah scientists discovered 20 years ago
And it’s still just 10 years away from being commercially available...
AOC sez the world will end in 12 years...
Dang, it’s always SOMETHING !!!
[You won’t hear much more about this. Too much money in treating cancer and in researching eliminating cancer to actually eliminate it.]
I agree. “May” would have been better.
Either that or God doesn’t want us to have the cure to teach us a lesson.
“Might?” A very big word.
...
Yep. This is 99% fake news, and this is the third or fourth FR article on the subject.
That's a Marxist view of the world. In reality, many very successful industries have been made obsolete by new technologies. It's how the world really works.
CNN Reports that Trump is putting Cancer Research Scientests out of work.
And that was one helluva net-positive trade off right there, wasn’t it? LOL!
I am recurrence free after five years after taking one of the targetted "miracle" drugs. Incredibly expensive and almost totally covered by my insurance.
The same drug has reduced the five year mortality rate of chronic myeloid leukemia from 90% to about 40% (from memory so maybe off some).
This same drug now is available as a generic and has three manufacturers.
If you don’t want to spend 25% of your wealth on medical treatments that save your life - don’t.
It’s not a conspiracy by drug companies that causes there to be lots of stuff that will kill you without medical treatment.
Most major scientific breakthroughs have been serendipitous. "Directed" research really only works for extending fundamental concepts, not finding them.
Didn’t Trump recently sign into a law a bill that would allow terminal patients to use whatever experimental treatments available even if not approved by whatever gov agency does that?
Seems to me all cancers are terminal so anyone with it should be able to try this treatment at the earliest possible time after being diagnosed.
Hopefully this thing is real.
supposedly it kicks immune system into high gear too- but what about folks with autoimmune systems- kicking immune system into higher gear would be bad for them- and cause their autoimmune disease to attack healthy tissue even more?
POTUS @ Davos (28:00): “we are continuing to work on things that you’ll hear about in the near future that even today sitting here right now you wouldn’t believe it’s possible that WE HAVE FOUND THE ANSWERS ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That would be cool. Prayers up! Cancer sucks.
Excellent post! Very well said.
This may or may not be the great cure for cancer they’ve been looking for for so long but I have always been sure that one day they will find it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.