Interesting article about a possible cancer cure?

[Hamanu]

Here's an article I found in the telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html

Apparently, a Swedish scientist has run clinical trials on mice and the virus he used seems to have "eaten" the cancer cells.

Now he can't find anyone willing to fund further trials. It seems he didn't patent his discovery, and pharmaceutical companies can't make any money off his discovery.

In case anyone wants to donate

https://www.uu.se/en/support/oncolytic

I've no idea how "true" this is. I just stumbled upon it.

 

[CelticPredator]

The US government won't use it anyway. They want to bleed us dry until we're dead.

 

[The Ween]

Here's an article I found in the telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/...ncer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html

Apparently, a Swedish scientist has run clinical trials on mice and the virus he used seems to have "eaten" the cancer cells.

Now he can't find anyone willing to fund further trials. It seems he didn't patent his discovery, and pharmaceutical companies can't make any money off his discovery.

In case anyone wants to donate

https://www.uu.se/en/support/oncolytic

I've no idea how "true" this is. I just stumbled upon it.

If the patent is all he needs, why doesn't he get one?

They can't make AS MUCH money off of it.

If this really works, he should find some rich dude to back him and they could open clinics and make a killing.

 

[thenammagazine]

Here's an article I found in the telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html

Apparently, a Swedish scientist has run clinical trials on mice and the virus he used seems to have "eaten" the cancer cells.

Now he can't find anyone willing to fund further trials. It seems he didn't patent his discovery, and pharmaceutical companies can't make any money off his discovery.

In case anyone wants to donate

https://www.uu.se/en/support/oncolytic

I've no idea how "true" this is. I just stumbled upon it.

What kills the virus?

 

[LoneWolf]

I hope one or more of the many billionaires of this world will reach out to this scientist.

 

[EXOTICLEX]

Oh no's. I am Legend here we come.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I read through the article, but DAMN that author has an annoying habit of adding a bunch of ridiculous and unnecessary information into the article like describing the scenery surrounding the place where the virus is being stored.


It really distracts from the important issue of the story.

 

[a-dev]

I expect nothing to come of this. Like usual.

 

[Darth Cruel]

As near as I can tell, the author has simply taken up the cause of another unfounded claim of a cancer cure. It seems that there is something about the results never having been replicated and the research is not considered to be "quality" research. And it sounds like there is not a lot of peer support for the research...something that appears to be critical to attaining the credibility to get the funding.

In short...he needs some other scientists to perform the same experiment and come up with the same results before anyone will take it seriously. And there sounds to be many, many experiments waiting for peer reinforcement in an industry where everyone only has enough resources for their own projects.

Oh, and 'Nam...the immune system kills the virus similarly to Rhinovirus and influenza viruses in the lab animals that the testing was performed on. This virus is just a modified version of a virus that originates in the adenoids of humans...so the human immune system has been making very, very short work of it for a long, long time. It is one of the obstacles that had to be overcome in the tests on the lab animals. And, as near as I can make out through all of the story fluff, they did that by introducing the DNA of the virus into a bacteria that makes it farther through the body before the immune system kills it. I am guessing that it mutates the bacteria to be similar to the virus in it's hunger for the cancer.

 

[a-dev]

I'm reminded of the line in Demolition Man - "Send a maniac to catch a maniac"

 

[thenammagazine]

I am guessing that it mutates the bacteria to be similar to the virus in it's hunger for the cancer.

So what kills the mutated virus and mutated bacteria? I can see how the immune system kills natural stuff, but any time something's bio-engineered to beat the immune system, you're playing with fire. Doubly so if it mutates further while inside the host.