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| We'll have a cure for cancer within a year, scientists claim |
| 2019-01-29 |
| [NYP] A team of Israeli scientists claim they will likely develop a cure for cancer in the next year, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. The new treatment is being developed by Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies under the leadership of CEO Dr. Ilan Morad, according to the report. "We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer," said Dan Aridor, chairman of the company’s board. "Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market." The treatment, called MuTaTo, will use a combination of cancer-targeting peptides and a toxin that will specifically kill cancer cells. The treatment will eventually be personalized and a specific cocktail of the drugs will be given to patients based on their type of cancer, Morad told the newspaper. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 They always say it's a year or two in the future. Never believe that. Believe it when you see people getting cured. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-01-29 12:08 |
| #9 I have serious doubts but really it would be amazing if true. It would also give the left something to cheer to avoid giving Trump credit for economy, increasing world piece, etc, so if it does turn out real it'll be 10x the normal glowing coverage. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-01-29 10:20 |
| #8 If true, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies will be 'bought' out - by whatever means necessary - by Merck or Bayer or whoever, to protect their lucrative chemotherapy market. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2019-01-29 09:41 |
| #7 Springing up all over. Notice they're called "cancer treatment centers" not cancer cure centers. Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but I can only go on what I sees. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-29 08:55 |
| #6 18.1 million new cases are diagnosed every year worldwide. Cancer treatment is big business. Is there any incentive to have a paradigm shift in thinking, that is, moving from treatment to cure? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-01-29 08:39 |
| #5 Cancer is cured (or delayed so people die from other stuff like ageing) much more than in the past. Only CRISPR+++ changing the genome (or epigenetics of a similar order) has a chance to truly CURE cancer as the genetic weaknesses that stop apoptosis of cancerous cells are still there once the cancer is removed. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-29 06:07 |
| #4 I agree with g(r)omgoru, I remember as a kid, collecting money for cancer research and being told by some professor that we would soon have a cure for cancer, did not happen. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2019-01-29 05:49 |
| #3 >he treatment, called MuTaTo, will use a combination of cancer-targeting peptides and a toxin that will specifically kill cancer cells. So it's chemotherapy. If they could show any hints or science behind their specificity I might be inclined to not think bullshit, but at the moment this seems TGTBT i.e. bullshit. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-01-29 03:53 |
| #2 Hah. Seems I typed the following, and thinking of asking you about this, literally as you were calling BS. ;-) Can't be true. But if it were -- channeling g(r)om -- a hundred years later... A gate, decorated ornately, A monument, massive and stately, And on it, a motto: "MuTaTo, MuTaTo... But what have you done for me lately?" |
| Posted by: Ebbineck Cligum9945 2019-01-29 02:42 |
| #1 I call b*llshit |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-01-29 02:34 |