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2019-01-29 Science & Technology

We'll have a cure for cancer within a year, scientists claim

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-29 02:06|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 I call b*llshit

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-29 02:34|| 2019-01-29 02:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 02:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 03:53|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 05:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 06:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 08:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 09:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 10:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

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