New Immune System Boosting Drug May Lead to Cancer Cures

1. Johnny Cat
   August 15th, 2008 at 12:13 am

   We are complex machines, we can overcome this cancer scourge. Anybody got a light?

2. Thomas
   August 15th, 2008 at 12:41 am

   I can't wait until they can put anticancer drugs into cigarettes. That'll be the day.

3. clinton labombard
   August 15th, 2008 at 3:47 am

   Boosting the human immune system is what should have been done to begin with.

4. Lionheart
   August 15th, 2008 at 5:58 am

   I sign up for that, Thomas.

5. Tim
   August 15th, 2008 at 7:21 am

   What the researchers failed to mention were all the nasty side affects and the fact that no long term research has been done on the drug.

   It's a man made drug designed to make some drug company rich, nothing more...

6. sparge
   August 15th, 2008 at 8:09 am

   Tim -

   I'll take the side effects over cancer.

7. Idil
   August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am

   Tim,I think anyone with Cancer wouldn't care about side affects... and also, Cancer medicine is something that all good doctors really want to find... I doubt that this medicine was made without the intention to make peoples lives better, leaving it at only a medicine made to make a drug company rich.

8. Jimbo
   August 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am

   Here is a quick fact for you.

   There is BILLIONS of dollars in the US alone spend on treatment. That is just too much money for them to ever find a cure. It isn't like the day when Polo was wiped out. Then they had a passion to find a cure.

   If they find a cure for cancer, all those "specialist" will be out of a job. All the research money, also in the BILLIONS will stop.

9. Thomas
   August 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am

   I remember the day I was cured of Polo. I was wearing a Polo shirt, and I looked in the mirror and thought to myself, "holy crap, I look like a douche."

10. Jaxx
    August 15th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    @jimbo
    Yes, and then they can move on to the next one in the list, likely diabetes.

    What about the recent cancer research involving the reactivation of the mitochondria in cancerous cells?

11. Retrokatze
    August 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    @ Jimbo: People like you always seem to forget that those "specialists" can get cancer, too, and would probably liked to be cured and search for another job than all that money while dying of cancer.

12. sparge
    August 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    I'm pretty sure the specialist/researcher/company that comes up with a cure for cancer will have no trouble finding new funding.

13. chet
    August 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    @ Jimbo: people will still get cancer even if there is a cure you'll still need someone to administer it won't you? Also, cancer isn't one disease, there are tons of different kinds, some can already be cured, some can't.

14. Maureen
    August 16th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    I'd take the chance on the nasty side effects any day. There is nothing worse then going through chemo. A cure for my incurable Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (there are over 25 different yes of lymphoma)is most welcome. Any small step forward is a huge step in finding a cure for some type of cancer.

15. TwoDragons
    August 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Maureen: I feel for you, my Mom is coping with Non-Hodgekins herself. As well as suffering the effects of two inoperable brain tumors that have robbed her of almost all of her sight.

    She and I would both love to see a cure. It'd give my Mom a chance to see her grandson and soon-to-be granddaughter grow up to be young adults.

    --TwoDragons

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