Gene Therapy Cancer Treatment

[Lucky1936]

One of his patients, 43-year-old Dimas Padilla of Orlando, was driving when he got a call saying his cancer was worsening, chemotherapy was no longer working, and there was no match to enable a second try at a stem cell transplant.

“I actually needed to park … I was thinking how am I going to tell this to my mother, my wife, my children,” he said. But after CAR-T therapy last August, he saw his tumors “shrink like ice cubes” and is now in complete remission.

“They were able to save my life,” Padilla said.

http://news.nationalpost.com/health/can ... =ca2f-3da4

[apeman]

Wow. I hope this is legit.

[BjornP]

Probably fake. News doesn't show up anywhere else, and even a potential cure for cancer..? Yeah, that would headline news everywhere else. So, either entirely fabricated bullshit or just a sprinkle of facts over a massive pile of dung, presented as "Amazing Science News!" on a slow news day.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah, I've seen at least a dozen 'miracle cures' mentioned, then nothing else.

I'm still on the fence, but not totally opposed to the theory that drug companies would suppress an actual cure, in order to keep manufacturing chemo drugs etc.

[The Conservative]

http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-gene- ... me-1.20988

[Kazmyr]

Yeah, I've seen at least a dozen 'miracle cures' mentioned, then nothing else.

I'm still on the fence, but not totally opposed to the theory that drug companies would suppress an actual cure, in order to keep manufacturing chemo drugs etc.

I think this has more to do with the fact that media and others will read too much into the results and assume "instant miracle cure!" when further research and trials reveal that it's really not that effective. In like a lion, out like a lamb.

And big pharma isn't 'suppressing' cures, nor are they directly working on funding research into novel oncology treatments. They'd rather just wait, find a company with a really promising drug/biologic in the pipeline, let it go commercial, pay a fuckton of money for the company, and make a fuckton^3 of money.