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Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure

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This sounds extremely promising.


Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure - CBS News
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.
"I think it was more of a -- 'This is really cool, I want to see if it works' -- type thing," she said.
"And when you found out it did..." asked Hartman.
"That was pretty amazing."
It'll take years to know if it works in humans -- but in mice -- the tumors almost completely disappeared.
 
And just think, in one more year she'll be smart enough to vote.
 
Pfft whatever, I was Captain of my tennis team for a semester in high school, big wup.
 
Add the cure to the pile.

Sick people are profitable. Cures be damned. :shrug:
 
Temporal said:
Add the cure to the pile.

Sick people are profitable. Cures be damned. :shrug:
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They will probably still charge an arm and a leg for this.
 
jamesrage said:
This sounds extremely promising.


Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure - CBS News
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.
"I think it was more of a -- 'This is really cool, I want to see if it works' -- type thing," she said.
"And when you found out it did..." asked Hartman.
"That was pretty amazing."
It'll take years to know if it works in humans -- but in mice -- the tumors almost completely disappeared.
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What's wrong with our healthcare system is that it will take years to see if it works in humans. There'd be people standing in line for this treatment on an experimental basis. They should be allowed to do so. People who are terminal and who wish to participate ought to be welcomed into these studies. It's wrong that they're not.
 
MaggieD said:
What's wrong with our healthcare system is that it will take years to see if it works in humans. There'd be people standing in line for this treatment on an experimental basis. They should be allowed to do so. People who are terminal and who wish to participate ought to be welcomed into these studies. It's wrong that they're not.
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Couldn't agree more. Add to the fact that everyone wonders why drugs sold In America cost so much more than anywhere else in the world? Answer: Easy, it cost approx 500 million for a new drug to be approved in the USA. The FDA needs to be broken up into smaller more efficient agencies, and oh, while your at it, how about not having the drug companies themselves sit on the approval committies. IN addition get rid of the American cancer society, the Diabeties foundation, heck all of these societies and foundations are huge money sucking agencies that are mor einterested in treatment, NOT cures! The FDA is NOT interested in cures, they want treatments..

Tim-
 
Promising. I'll be keeping tabs on this.
 
Hicup said:
Couldn't agree more. Add to the fact that everyone wonders why drugs sold In America cost so much more than anywhere else in the world? Answer: Easy, it cost approx 500 million for a new drug to be approved in the USA. The FDA needs to be broken up into smaller more efficient agencies, and oh, while your at it, how about not having the drug companies themselves sit on the approval committies. IN addition get rid of the American cancer society, the Diabeties foundation, heck all of these societies and foundations are huge money sucking agencies that are mor einterested in treatment, NOT cures! The FDA is NOT interested in cures, they want treatments..

Tim-
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Drug prices in the USA are so much higher because the drug companies can get away with charging whatever the like here. Congress prohibited price negotiation with Part D, and our FDA enforces LACK of competition quite effectively. Soem drugs that are over-the counter in Canada are scheduled NARCOTICS in the USA.
 
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