Cancer breakthrough: New drug shown to prevent cancer growth ready for human testing

[Strawberry]

two of the world’s foremost cancer researchers announced Tuesday the creation of a new drug aimed at preventing the growth of an array of cancers.
Tak Mak, director of the Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Dr. Dennis Slamon, of the University of California Los Angeles, are part of the 100-person team that developed the drug, which has been tested on human ovarian, breast, pancreas, lung and colon cancer in mice.
The researchers are calling the drug a “sharpshooter” for its ability to target a specific enzyme, rather than take a “one-size fits all” approach, Slamon explained to reporters at a Toronto news conference.

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[YowYan]

There are plenty of cancer cell deducing remedies but big pharmacy were not interested as healthy people are not profitable.

 

[Hunty]

two of the world’s foremost cancer researchers announced Tuesday the creation of a new drug aimed at preventing the growth of an array of cancers.
Tak Mak, director of the Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Dr. Dennis Slamon, of the University of California Los Angeles, are part of the 100-person team that developed the drug, which has been tested on human ovarian, breast, pancreas, lung and colon cancer in mice.
The researchers are calling the drug a “sharpshooter” for its ability to target a specific enzyme, rather than take a “one-size fits all” approach, Slamon explained to reporters at a Toronto news conference.

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Your arguments are invalid. :O

This is fantastic news. Now we just need to legalize gay marriage.

 

[ZK]

There are plenty of cancer cell deducing remedies but big pharmacy were not interested as healthy people are not profitable.

Like alternative remedies?
Please don't go there.

 

[The7thHokage]

This isnt a joking matter, so I hope the news is correct.

 

[Hunty]

Like alternative remedies?
Please don't go there.

"Alternative remedies."

What's the issue?

 

[Strawberry]

There are plenty of cancer cell deducing remedies but big pharmacy were not interested as healthy people are not profitable.

im well aware there were even programs that were shut down as they were less profitable even thought more promising, but this is one that might be profitable and still somehow working, greed kills.

 

[ProGun]

There are plenty of cancer cell deducing remedies but big pharmacy were not interested as healthy people are not profitable.

True

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would put all other cancer remedies out of business if they got off the ground, so they are forced to try and get private funding. Imagine a cure for cancer with zero side effects... Any doctor could set this up in their own office and the hospitals would lose a sure fire revenue stream. :-/

 

[Wang]

The article says it hasn't been tested on humans yet. ('_' )

 

[DJKS]

There have already been cures. The difference was that the pharmaceutical companies couldn't make any profit out of those so they just say that there are no known cures.

 

[Jin Hayami]

I feel a lot more comfortable smoking a pack a day now.

 

[ZK]

"Alternative remedies."

What's the issue?

By definition; alternative medicine has either not been proved to work, or has been proved not to work.

 

[Darthlawsuit]

Curing diseases is not as profitable as "suppressing symptoms". Have you noticed most drugs are problems in themselves and they don't fix the problem but suppress it.

 

[PTran5]

The article says it hasn't been tested on humans yet. ('_' )

Human trials are still a long way to go. They didn't even tell us if there were any acute or chronic side-effects associated with the use of this drug. That means they are still doing vivo testing (and probably will be for another few years). Though, this is great news.

P.S. I just looked at the title again and saw the "ready for human test" part. Wow that's weird... They are supposed to go through a series of stages in testing drugs to make sure the drugs are going to be safe for use in the population. Because they didn't mention anything about side-effects, I assumed that they didn't check if the drug was safe in the short and long term.

 

[Domo Genesis]

<div class="bbWrapper">I heard we already found cures for cancer but hasn't been FDA approved</div>

 

[YowYan]

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Another remedy for cancer

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