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Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor
2013-04-01
The drug works by blocking a protein called CD47 that is essentially a "do not eat" signal to the body's immune system, according to Science Magazine

With this observation in mind, the researchers built an antibody that blocked cancer's CD47 so that the body's immune system attacked the dangerous cells.

So far, researchers have used the antibody in mice with human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors transplanted into them. In each of the cases the antibody forced the mice's immune system to kill the cancer cells.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  ..or someone looking for grant money in a sequester.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-01 21:55  

#4  "I'm always immediately skeptical of anything published on this date."

Agreed, PBMcL, but you'd have to be a serious sicko to publish a fake story about this subject.
Posted by: Barbara   2013-04-01 18:20  

#3  This is not new news...

http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2012summer/article7.html

Summer 2012.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-01 17:54  

#2  Interesting if true. But I'm always immediately skeptical of anything published on this date.
Posted by: PBMcL   2013-04-01 15:50  

#1  Cool!

Hopefully they know how to only apply it to cancer cells....
Posted by: DarthVader   2013-04-01 14:54  

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