re: Immune discovery may treat all cancer

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Can you name an example of this happening? I want to believe this.

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Iirc, tertiary treatment for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was expedited.

So, only rich people should have children? There are a lot of good people who come from poor families and lots of trash from rich ones. So, LeBron, Jay Leno, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Dolly Parton, and Shania Twain shouldn't be here since their parents were poor? The Kardashians and Paris Hilton should be since they come from money.

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Big Pharma just took over and will charge tooth and nail for a dosage

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Removing the prospect of extraordinary financial success is a great way to make sure a cure is never found.

What did a high def TV originally cost when it first hit the market vs what you can get one for now? The same forces that eventually over time lower the cost of your TV can and do lower the cost of your medications - if you let them work.

The whole notion of "healthcare is a right" is an attempt to declare it too morally important to wait and allow these forces to work naturally because PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!! It's emotion over reason, and the slow creep of ideas like this and pharmaceutical price controls into politics will inevitably lead to fewer new drugs and shortages of the ones we do create.

Can't wait.

That's not to say there aren't problems that need to be rectified. But all too many people are falling for the wrong solutions.

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What did a high def TV originally cost when it first hit the market vs what you can get one for now? The same forces that eventually over time lower the cost of your TV can and do lower the cost of your medications - if you let them work.

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so... in order for medicines to come down in price, they are going to start having to inject us with a tracking bug that will track every single thing we do in our lives? Because that's how TV's have come down in price... TV's are nothing but Advertisement portals that monitor every single thing you watch (even if you don't use the TV app) and sell it to the highest bidder.. or two to "recoup the cost" they lost from not selling that TV for $1k.

Feels like there has a been a "cure for cancer" mentioned every couple years for the past 20 years and we haven't cured anything.

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Why cure with one drug when you can treat with 20?

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Because the company with the cure can take full market share of teh companies with the 20?

This should be obvious.

Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'

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Our immune system is our body's natural defense against infection, but it also attacks cancerous cells. The scientists were looking for "unconventional" and previously undiscovered ways the immune system naturally attacks tumors. What they found was a T-cell inside people's blood. This is an immune cell that can scan the body to assess whether there is a threat that needs to be eliminated.

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How does it work?

T-cells have "receptors" on their surface that allow them to "see" at a chemical level. The Cardiff team discovered a T-cell and its receptor that could find and kill a wide range of cancerous cells in the lab including lung, skin, blood, colon, breast, bone, prostate, ovarian, kidney and cervical cancer cells.

Crucially, it left normal tissues untouched

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Why is this significant?

T-cell cancer therapies already exist and the development of cancer immunotherapy has been one of the most exciting advances in the field. The most famous example is CAR-T - a living drug made by genetically engineering a patient's T-cells to seek out and destroy cancer. CAR-T can have dramatic results that transform some patients from being terminally ill to being in complete remission.

However, the approach is highly specific and works in only a limited number of cancers where there is a clear target to train the T-cells to spot. And it has struggled to have any success in "solid cancers" - those that form tumors rather than blood cancers such as leukemia. The researchers say their T-cell receptor could lead to a "universal" cancer treatment

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IMO, the way we treat cancer today is primitive...blasting the body with poison (chemo) killing good and bad cells.

Hopefully, one day soon in our lifetime, we can look back at this method and just shake our head in disgust.

Don't need FDA approval since our president signed right to try.

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Aaaaaaaaand Big Pharma just took over and will charge tooth and nail for a dosage.

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1) That's the wrong use of "tooth and nail"

2) The average cost to bring a new drug to market is between $2-$3 billion. Do you not think that any company taking that risk deserves to recoup their investment?