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Actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1608-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1608-2 Looks pretty strong: getting rid of the fung
by yread 7y ago
Actual paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1608-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1608-2
Looks pretty strong: getting rid of the fungi stopped tumor growth and repopulating it with that type of fungi (and not with other types) restarted it again (in mice). And they've even found a drug target!
Pancreatic cancer is not the most common but one of the most deadly (<10% survival) with very short times between diagnosis (it's mostly asymptomatic) and death.
- e40 7y ago> Pancreatic cancer is not the most common but one of the most deadly (<10% survival) with very short times between diagnosis (it's mostly asymptomatic) and death. All but one of the people I've known in my life that died from cancer died of this form. It's like 7 people. A useful treatment can't come soon enough.
- selectodude 7y agoA useful early warning bio-marker needs to come first.
- mikelyons 7y agoor whenever it does, because once we have the bio-marker, we can then throw what would be the already-invented treatment at it ...
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoAlso helpful would be doctors who actually perform the kinds of general exploratory tests you are alluding to the existence of. I’ve never encountered one. I usually need to beg for extremely specific tests to be done but rarely do they agree to perform them. Even a bribe of thousands of dollars paid in cash under the table on the spot is still not enough to get them to comply with simple requests for specific tests. Where do you live?
- turk73 7y agoSo why isn't Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead yet, then? She's had it 2x. My father-in-law succumbed to it a mere six months after his diagnosis, albeit a late one because his doctors sucked.
- BurningFrog 7y agoIt it maybe a cancer that hits younger people than the more common ones? That would explain why it's the first cancer deaths someone saw in their life.
- rolltiide 7y agoYoung as in late 50s early 60s? Also worth noting that its only deadly because its found after its metastasized. There is the similar probability that people live with a form of cancer more of their lives than without, before it grows faster and uncontrollably for unknown reasons.
- perl4ever 7y agoOnly person I know that died of it was 80-ish, happened fairly suddenly.
- e40 7y agoNope, all the people I've known were 50s and beyond.
- michaelbuckbee 7y agoA note about the asymptomatic nature of pancreatic cancer: my uncle and a former colleague both were eventually diagnosed with it after treatment for back pain. In my former colleague's case, his chiropractor actually referred him for testing.