Possible Cure For Cancer

[DhehKappa]

Not sure if there's any topic with this info on it; if not, check it out.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26677869-23272,00.html

What'chu guys think?

 

[Lt. Beardsly]

I think we'd better take a lesson from I Am Legend on this one.

 

[Jaqen H'ghar]

She said it was "immoral, illegal, and unscientific" to seek to be administered the drug before approval, likely to take up to seven years, by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.


I think the woman needs a **** punch. Illegal, certainly but ffs people who are literally dying in months should take any chance they have immoral and unscientific are a huge stretch, especially given that it could take so long to approve it's usage and even then it'll likely be exceptionally expensive to obtain like every other cheap masproduced drug that there is an adamant need for.

 

[DhehKappa]

She said it was "immoral, illegal, and unscientific" to seek to be administered the drug before approval, likely to take up to seven years, by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.


I think the woman needs a **** punch. Illegal, certainly but ffs people who are literally dying in months should take any chance they have immoral and unscientific are a huge stretch, especially given that it could take so long to approve it's usage and even then it'll likely be exceptionally expensive to obtain like every other cheap masproduced drug that there is an adamant need for.

I just think testing on humans could be sped up; the animals that were tested on seemed to turn out perfectly fine, so human testing shouldn't be a problem, I'm sure there's plenty of terminal patients waiting for a cure. And even if they are excluded due to the terminal state, there's still a ton of cancer patients who wouldn't mind participating in what could well be the medicinal advancement of the decade.

 

[Jaqen H'ghar]

mind participating in what could well be the medicinal advancement of the century.

Fix'd

 

[Cailst]

Fix'd

Well, you never know what we might stumble upon later this century. After all, cancer is only the second biggest killer.


Though I think some of the caution may have been because we already have treatments for cancer which have caused many cancer survivors to exist. However, this new cure could prove to be dangerous in humans and could jeopardize other approaches.

 

[Keanu]

sounds like great news. if it works that is

 

[Neutrino]

I would really like the science of that explained to me... If they could get it working for malign cancer that would be really awesome.

 

[Kaeb]

Damn this is one of many potential cures for certain types of cancer that hasn't even been damn approved yet.

 

[Kit]

we already have treatments for cancer which have caused many cancer survivors to exist.

Chemo isn't a treatment, it's liquid poison, pumped straight into your veins. It's just as bad for you as it is for the cancer, but comes in nice controlled bursts.

And it's abominable that it's the best treatment we have for most cancers.

 

[Kaeb]

Chemo isn't a treatment, it's liquid poison, pumped straight into your veins. It's just as bad for you as it is for the cancer, but comes in nice controlled bursts.

And it's abominable that it's the best treatment we have for most cancers.

qfe

 

[Fluch des Pharao]

My mother has cancer and she herself takes expiremental drugs at the discretion of her doctor. She doesn't talk about it much but she takes several things including a chemo pill. Shes doing well it seems and never complains much.

Now while chemo is very destructive its the only treatment, and by defintion of the word it is in fact a treatment, that we currently have that can minimalize complications and prolong life of cancer patients that would otherwise be shortened. While I am optimistic of a cure out there these fruits seem a little too good to be true as of right now.

 

[Kaeb]

Hell I even remember seeing an advertisement from some american institution asking to fund their research into nanomachines combating cancer.

People need to understand theres a hell of alot of experiemental non-finalized 'cures' out there, but the majority of them aren't legal or haven't reached human trials yet.

 

[Fluch des Pharao]

Most of them have moral and ethical issues which hinders much of their progress.

 

[Kaeb]

Damn I'd really like to get into the thick of it with 'moral' issues and people's views on possible cures but I see this becoming another RAWR thread.

 

[Fluch des Pharao]

lol.

More or less most of the moral issues resolve around interfering with nature. Some people believe it is wrong to change the fate of individual. Alot of it is centralled around religious extremism though that is not the only group of individuals that find fault in many of these "to be" cures.

 

[Jedi Master Huttling]

I just paradox'd my brain right now. D:

If this cure works, it'll be amazing.

 

[Kaeb]

Wonder what the world WOULD be like without cancer actually.

 

[DhehKappa]

Wonder what the world WOULD be like without cancer actually.

I wonder what people will DO to be cancer-less. I don't expect something that makes you pee your cancer away to be cheap.

 

[Fluch des Pharao]

@Enekappa: lol

@Constantine: Nature is a force. Scientifically proven we have survival of the fittest and natural selection. The strong survive and nature, in order to control population of ANY living creature, will attack its own creations. Cancer is a perfect example, so was small pox, bubonic plague, AID's, the list goes on. When one of these disappears another takes its place and in many cases, something much more nasty.