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- Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- The researchers believe the local application of very small amounts of the agents could serve as a rapid and relatively inexpensive cancer therapy that is unlikely to cause the adverse side effects often seen with bodywide immune stimulation.
- The approach worked startlingly well in laboratory mice with transplanted mouse lymphoma tumors in two sites on their bodies. Injecting one tumor site with the two agents caused the regression not just of the treated tumor, but also of the second, untreated tumor. In this way, 87 of 90 mice were cured of the cancer. Although the cancer recurred in three of the mice, the tumors again regressed after a second treatment. The researchers saw similar results in mice bearing breast, colon and melanoma tumors.
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FirebrandRoaring · 2269 days ago · link ·
They kept saying that there's no such thing as "cure for cancer" because there are different kinds of cancer, and each requires its own approach... Yet, here we are.
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FirebrandRoaring · 2269 days ago · link ·
Damn, man. Glad you're on the other side. It better be. The fucker's a dragon."Shit! The party may be over guys."
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FirebrandRoaring · 2269 days ago · link ·
I never said it was cure for cancer. I said the comments that tried to disprove its possibility due to cancer's various types are far less relevant now.