• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    14 days ago

    Hopefully, the researchers will be fully employed by the EU. I wouldn’t trust the US to not fuck up this miracle.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment.

    I read that as: Will never reach the market because it threatens a multibillion dollar industry.

    But srsly, glioblastoma is a really nasty motherfucker with a very low patient survival rate, so if they’ve really managed to cure it that’s a huge milestone.

  • GargleBlaster@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    I’ll read the publication in the coming days and report back, but don’t get your hopes up. There’s a “breakthrough” in cancer research every few months and it leads to nothing. And this study was done in mice which are a bit different to humans (citation needed)

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      14 days ago

      They cured hair loss in mice at least twenty times now and we still have bald humans

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        14 days ago

        They should probably find a way to turn humans into mice. It’s a shame to leave billions of dollars on the table like that.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Previous research has focused more on homing in on a target or tailoring a vaccine specific to a patient’s own cancer profile.

    “This study suggests a third emerging paradigm,” said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. “What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine.”

    So… Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I’d be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.