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Topic started on 10-12-2012 @ 05:55 PM by deadeyedick

In Girl's Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia


www.nytimes.com
It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options.

Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, one that had never before been tried in a child, or in anyone with the type of leukemia Emma had. The experiment, in April, used a disabled form of the virus that causes AIDS to reprogram Emma’s immune system genetically to kill cancer cells.
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reply posted on 10-12-2012 @ 06:56 PM by butcherguy
reply to post by deadeyedick

I am fairly cynical, but this is a 'good' news story.
I am happy for the girl. Also glad for AIDS being put to good use.

Thanks for posting it! S&F!

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reply posted on 11-12-2012 @ 05:59 AM by Lucid Lunacy
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AIDS cures cancer!


AIDS is not a virus. AIDS is not what was used. AIDS is a collective group of ailments accompanied with a specific T-cell count. The connection here is the widely (yet disputed) held claim HIV causes AIDS. They used a modified HIV virus.

Here is a quote from a different article.

But scientists say the treatment that helped Mr. Ludwig, described recently in The New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, may signify a turning point in the long struggle to develop effective gene therapies against cancer. And not just for leukemia patients: other cancers may also be vulnerable to this novel approach — which employs a disabled form of H.I.V.-1, the virus that causes AIDS, to carry cancer-fighting genes into the patients’ T-cells. In essence, the team is using gene therapy to accomplish something that researchers have hoped to do for decades: train a person’s own immune system to kill cancer cells.


Really awesome news for that girl! And hopefully for many others!


reply posted on 11-12-2012 @ 09:25 AM by stupid girl
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Originally posted by HappyWarrior
Good for the little girl that survived.

But the cure for cancer have already been found, many times. It just isn't profitable, simple as that. I mean, why would anybody bother to make a cure for cancer if there's no money to be made in it? screw the fact that you could save millions of people.

Don't you just love Capitalism?
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Capitolism ain't the problem, corporatism and corporate facism is. Big Pharma wants to hold a monopoly on treatments and cures, to bottleneck all that money into one entity, then they turn around and market half assed treatments that really do not help. Doctors know all about it and they get paid a percentage sum to get you to take crap that will kill you a couple years later. Half the stuff they market you gives you worse crap than what you suffer from, like cancer, strokes and heartattacks.


Doctors do not get paid a percentage of any type of pharmaceutical sales. There are good people and there are bad people, regardless of what their career may be.
A doctor spends a minimum of 24 years of their life pursuing an education. Should they choose to specialize, you can tack on a few additional years to that.
Then, once they are done being in school for almost a third of their life, they begin their career anywhere from $200,000 +plus in debt, and that is at the very low-end of the spectrum, which would include subtracting scholarship money.
People want to vilify doctors because they make an above-average income, but that is the very incentive which causes most people to dedicate that much of their life pursuing the education for it.
Anyone can become a doctor, but a far less amount of people want to invest the kind of time and effort it takes to accomplish it.
Pharma and many physicians are in bed with each other, no doubt. But what you are referring to are the ones who receive exorbitant "speaking fees" (marketing presentations) and "expense reimbursements" (vehicles, vacations/travel, vacation properties, etc.) .

Not all doctors are bad little Bro, you know that


reply posted on 11-12-2012 @ 09:28 AM by Lucid Lunacy
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Unlike all these conspiracy theories revolving around this matter, there is plenty of money to be made by curing cancer.


No need to enter the realm of theory, capitalism isn't that mysterious. It isn't a matter of whether there is money to be made in curing cancer. Of course there is. What matters to corporate interests is whether it's the most profitable option. Cost of being cured versus prolonged medications and treatments.

Originally posted by HappyWarrior
But the cure for cancer have already been found, many times....

...I mean, why would anybody bother to make a cure for cancer

These two are in conflict.
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