I wish the company every success, but - how many prospective "miracle cures" have turned out not to be? We shouldn't hold our breath. Cancer is a complex and myriad collection of diseases - all kinds of forms, causes, damage etc. Great advances against some types - and I hope we see many more. Finding a single "cure to cancer" is like trying to wipe out all infection in one global swoop. I don't believe it's that simple - I wish it was. If this research even gives us one small step - or one more weapon in the arsenal - that'd be great. J.
If you want to put in a B*llsh*t filter into your brain for cancer, you can read (or watch) Emperor of All Maladies. I believe the 3 part documentary is on Netflix. The book was required reading in the course I took at Harvard called Contemporary Topics in Life Sciences. I haven't looked at the link yet, but here's why there isn't yet a cure for "cancer." The word "cancer" tricks us into thinking that it is a disease. "Cancer" isn't a disease, it's more like an astronomically category to explain a kind of cell reproduction that might kill you. A super simple explanation is to imagine you have a photocopy machine. You place your original on the glass and press "copy." The copies that come out are great- and life is great. Those are your cells reproducing. You discover you're down to your last single copy of the page! So, you rush to the office to make more copies. You make your copies, but you find that the copy machine's glass has a huge scratch over the front. Every copy you make this time has gigantic line across the front, and your copies look ruined. (cells mutated). You call the copy repairman (doctor) and he replaces the machine's glass (chemo/radiation/surgery) but in the process destroys your only original copy. Since you no longer have your original- you can only copies with the gigantic line across the front. The trouble is, that your copy machine is working perfectly now (post-treatment), it's your copy of a copy that is imperfect. You can never undo the copy process or flaws that are passed down in those copies.
Analogy of the year! The decade! Thank you. --John, who has a special interest in a new Swedish cancer drug called Daratamumab, which seems to work very well on one very specific kind of cancer.
That's too bad. I have seen family members die from cnacer. It's a horrible painful. Kind of like getting away by acid from the inside.
