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Another Possible Cure?

May 13, 2011#1

LittleSin

I'll just leave this here.

Seriously, though. Did anyone else hear about this?

May 13, 2011#2

Gared

"That there article has some great comments on it." Prof. Gared Garedinski, M.D., Ph. D., D.D.O., VP - Sales

May 13, 2011#3

Chibibar

I post something about it earlier. It is basically a special coating that will "melt away" when encounter a highly acidic cells and release its medicine. It is a cool concept, but if cancer is cured what will all those cancer specialist to do? (not to mention the medicine)

May 13, 2011#4

Chad Sexington

More credible source, free of big-pharma-is-trying-to-kill-us slant: http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/Home/Updates/2010-05-12_Update.cfm

May 13, 2011#5

Gared

Chibibar said:
I post something about it earlier. It is basically a special coating that will "melt away" when encounter a highly acidic cells and release its medicine. It is a cool concept, but if cancer is cured what will all those cancer specialist to do? (not to mention the medicine)

Move on to discovering treatments and cures for virii. It would be nice if E-Strain didn't completely wipe out Thailand in the next half-century.

May 13, 2011#6

drifter

Chibibar said:
I post something about it earlier. It is basically a special coating that will "melt away" when encounter a highly acidic cells and release its medicine. It is a cool concept, but if cancer is cured what will all those cancer specialist to do? (not to mention the medicine)

No, this is something different (if memory serves). This article is talking about a drug that works by inducing cell death in tumors. The article you posted talked about a new delivery system for cancer drugs.

May 13, 2011#7

Chibibar

drifter said:
No, this is something different (if memory serves). This article is talking about a drug that works by inducing cell death in tumors. The article you posted talked about a new delivery system for cancer drugs.

Ah. so bottom line, no profit, no research

May 13, 2011#8

Chad Sexington

I don't think that's really the case. This is a pretty extraordinary claim, and the information was published about a year ago. So it might take time to verify it as being a cheap, highly effective cure for cancer. Other universities and labs may be testing this to see if it's replicable...

This isn't an exact relation, but: http://xkcd.com/882/

The media runs with things before all the sciency-bits have been finished. There's no profit-based conspiracy keeping us from curing cancer. What there probably is, is a lot of work yet to be done.

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