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New cancer treatment moving on to human trials

zyxt9

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For those who did not see it, this is pretty good news.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/every_cancer_kills_tumor_them_kind_L9lppJmy9gCoS848cSzqbP

The only concerning element was:

"One side effect of the treatment was that healthy cells were subjected to short-term attacks by the mice's immune system, but the effect was nothing in comparison to the damage done to the cancer cells."

However, I would imagine the damage done to healthy cells is minor compared to radiation therapy, but that could be a poor assumption. Seems like a fairly straight-forward approach though, and the fact it works against all the different types of cancers is definitely promising.

I sure hope this works and they can get the treatment rolled out quickly, especially for the kids who suffer from cancer. It would be nice if they could be given the option to participate in the human trials, but regardless it sure seems those kids especially will have some hope with this. Radiation treatment is bad enough on adults, downright heartbreaking what it does to kids.
 
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