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Cancer patient makes full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells

49 points by gibsonf1 18y ago

geuis 18y ago
That is pretty damn cool. Wish it had been an option in 1990 when my dad died.
DaniFong 18y ago
This is such exciting news. I studied the state of metastatic melanoma treatment intently for a while, and came to the conclusion that there just wasn't much other there for these people. Now that may have changed. I don't normally get out of my chair and run to tell my friends what's happened, but this is one of those times.
bprater 18y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. ("cum hoc ergo propter hoc") I hope this becomes a treatment for folks with cancer, but until it is well studied, we can't jump to conclusions.
- streety 18y ago
  The theory behind this is fairly well demostrated in animal models so I would be more confident in this than in some other novel treatments. On the other hand, "The patient was one of nine with metastatic melanoma, that is skin cancer that has spread, who were being treated in a recently completed clinical trial to test bigger and bigger doses of their own white blood cells." Nine patients and yet we are only hearing about one of them.
rw 18y ago
If/when this treatment becomes proven -- will those in need be able to get it?
mrdorian 18y ago
All cancer diseses will be successfully cured within the next 30 years because of the development of genetic technology
rkowalick 18y ago
The "extend human life expectancy a few years" hack
lsb 18y ago
Alligators' immune system is pretty great as well; they're fairly resistant to HIV due to their immune system that keeps them safe in swamps, they've got lots of anti-bacterials and anti-fungals. I wonder how many diseases wouldn't exist if we had an immune system 10x stronger.
- tortilla 18y ago
  Wouldn't we just have diseases that are 10x stronger too? :)
  - daniel-cussen 18y ago
    Not automatically.
  - albertcardona 18y ago
    It's a red queen world. So most likely we would.
lpgauth 18y ago
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49 points by gibsonf1 18y ago

geuis 18y ago

That is pretty damn cool. Wish it had been an option in 1990 when my dad died.

This is such exciting news. I studied the state of metastatic melanoma treatment intently for a while, and came to the conclusion that there just wasn't much other there for these people. Now that may have changed. I don't normally get out of my chair and run to tell my friends what's happened, but this is one of those times.

bprater 18y ago

Correlation does not imply causation. ("cum hoc ergo propter hoc") I hope this becomes a treatment for folks with cancer, but until it is well studied, we can't jump to conclusions.

streety 18y ago
The theory behind this is fairly well demostrated in animal models so I would be more confident in this than in some other novel treatments. On the other hand, "The patient was one of nine with metastatic melanoma, that is skin cancer that has spread, who were being treated in a recently completed clinical trial to test bigger and bigger doses of their own white blood cells." Nine patients and yet we are only hearing about one of them.

rw 18y ago

If/when this treatment becomes proven -- will those in need be able to get it?

mrdorian 18y ago

All cancer diseses will be successfully cured within the next 30 years because of the development of genetic technology

rkowalick 18y ago

The "extend human life expectancy a few years" hack

lsb 18y ago

Alligators' immune system is pretty great as well; they're fairly resistant to HIV due to their immune system that keeps them safe in swamps, they've got lots of anti-bacterials and anti-fungals. I wonder how many diseases wouldn't exist if we had an immune system 10x stronger.

tortilla 18y ago
Wouldn't we just have diseases that are 10x stronger too? :)
- daniel-cussen 18y ago
  Not automatically.
- albertcardona 18y ago
  It's a red queen world. So most likely we would.

lpgauth 18y ago

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