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Possible cure/vaccine for cancer

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rareison
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http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/152242/37/Roswell-Park-Makes-Major-Annoucement-on-Cancer-Vaccine
Jan 24 2012 9:09PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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yo just smoke weed
Jan 24 2012 9:11PM
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FerrisBueller
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Jan 24 2012 9:15PM
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geteducated
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the quintessential newschoolers reply.
Jan 24 2012 9:16PM
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dprice21
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its all down hill from here though. who remembers I am legend?
Jan 24 2012 9:17PM
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BmoChop
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unfortunately, this. Corporate America values money over the millions of lives ruined by cancer every year, and if this does actually prevent cancer, the chances that it is ever available to the public are horribly low because big pharmaceuticals make too much on cancer treatments to say goodbye to it all with a simple vaccine.
Jan 24 2012 9:26PM
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rednecknation
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you beat me to it. great movie by the way though, i cried when the dog died, i hate that shit
Jan 24 2012 9:27PM
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PJS.
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weed-related comment on ns->you know damn well FerrisBueller is gonna show up sometime.
Jan 24 2012 9:28PM
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S_Jenk
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A cure/vaccine for cancer? Seriously man?

A vaccine implies that cancer is a disease, which in reality it's an mutation in a cell that causes abnormally fast growth. Sure, doing things like smoking and over-exposure to radiation can cause cancer, but never was it a disease to begin with.

The "cure" for cancer is early detection and treatment, and that's how it will always be.


Jan 24 2012 9:49PM
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1337
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you sound brainwashed from the pharmaceuticals, man.
Jan 24 2012 9:50PM
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Milksteak
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Ummmm....
Jan 24 2012 10:02PM
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PJS.
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Ill just take a seat here...
Jan 24 2012 10:04PM
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Milksteak
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lets hear this one
Jan 24 2012 10:17PM
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scientist
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ayyyyoooo

and cancer, although horrible, is a giant form of natural population control.
Jan 24 2012 10:21PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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cancer is less population control, or it's unfair really. you don't need to do anything to get it and in fact, everyone makes cancer cells from time to time which are killed, hence why not everyone on the planet has cancer.

that aside, this is a really good idea (read how they think this should work). but the fact that they need to tailor it to every single person is gonna make this beyond costly.
Jan 24 2012 10:37PM
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trettzilla
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ill just settle down here and watch this unfold
Jan 24 2012 10:50PM
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squibble
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I'm pretty sure there isn't a universal cure for cancer. Some forms are more treatable than others and we have made a lot of progress. The conspiracy guys are crazy imo cause there are tons and tons of scientists who have looked into this, even ones not studying cancer specifically have enough knowledge to understand how difficult it would be to come up with something to cure it. Btw "cancer cells" represents a much larger category of abnormal cells, thats why skin cancer is different from prostate cancer.

Even with my meager understanding of cell biology I know that cancer can arise from nowhere, and spread really fast (HeLa cells). Any cure I can think of would either have to kill the cells or reverse their transformations, the latter being possible but completely impractical and the former being incredibly tricky.
Jan 24 2012 11:37PM
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theBearJew
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Very funny God. You can find other ways to kill people.
Jan 24 2012 11:39PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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firstly, i major in cell/molecular biology and minor in biochem so i'm pretty sure i didn't just make any of the following up, although i am still on winter break so bare with me if i'm wrong. the HeLa cells are from henrietta lacks, someone who had cervical cancer a really long time ago and for whatever reason her cells are immortal so they use them for research. this vaccine takes dendritic cells, which crawl around and search for bad stuff, ingest them, and then present antigens to the appropriate cells look for cancer cells. presumably, you get this after you have the cancer. so they're going to look for something specific on cancer cells, make the vaccine so the dendritic cells find them and present antigens to other immune cells so they can attack cancer cells. thats how i think it works.
Jan 24 2012 11:44PM
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.Mouse
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AGGGGGHHH. THIS IS JUST GONNA BE LIKE I AM LEGEND
Jan 24 2012 11:51PM
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