I've been writing about this stuff in a few past posts. And I want to bring some fresh awareness on it.
Julianna LeMieux, Senior Fellow in Molecular Biology, wrote an update on the website of the American Council on Science and Health, about the approval of the first gene therapy for cancer in the U.S.
The therapy uses a drug called Kymriah, developed by Novartis, for the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children and young adults. This type of therapy is put under the umbrella of immunotherapy, which receives a lot of attention in cancer research these days.
One of the reasons for the approval of Kymriah is its efficacy - a remission rate of 83% in 63 patients who've been treated for 3 months. However, there are life-threatening side effects for this type of therapy; and to overcome this issue, to alleviate these side-effects, another drug's approval has been expanded.
I'd recommend reading the full briefing on this by accessing the link below:
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This sounds really encouraging, optimism might become warranted on the cancer front as this type of research moves along.
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Immunotherapy, that where you train you immune system to target cancer cells?
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yes.
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Sound almost like science fiction. Very interesting stuff though, and from what I've read it looks really promising.
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Why did you down vote my comments? Was I obscene, was it spam???
I made perfectly valid points.
Death is just as important in the life cycle as birth is, humans need to realise this. It is very obvious that the number of humans on this planet is a big problem that is only going to get bigger. If we cure diseases like cancer we are going to get to the grim point where child birth is restricted.
Death is really under valued, without it there is no evolution, no sex and lots of animals would have no food source.
To the individual cancer can be a tragedy but to humanity as a whole it is a friend.
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because I don't think it's appropriate what you commented on my post.
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Why not?
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Is it appropriate to flag someone simply because there view of things differs from yours?
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Please flag my other comments, people really don't need to see them.
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felix, no hard feelings. but your comment 'Let cancer be, there are too many humans.' promotes hatred over humanity. And I don't like to see that on my posts. if you promise to remove the comment, I will remove the flag.
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It's okay, I don't really care.. Actually I like flags so maybe I should be thanking you:)
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Research means life!!
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This is pretty revolutionary!
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Nice post
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Lol
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