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Light on details. Not worth reading. TLDR it’s a “vaccine” story plus standard of care, with no mention of what exactly they are vaccinating or what they mean b

Light on details. Not worth reading. TLDR it’s a “vaccine” story plus standard of care, with no mention of what exactly they are vaccinating or what they mean by that. “ was the first to be given a vaccine tailored specifically to his tumor’s characteristics, which would help boost the cancer-detecting powers of the drugs”

koolba 2y ago
> Light on details. It’s the NY Post, not the Lancet. I’m impressed the article doesn’t somehow segue into raising money for his treatments on OnlyFans.
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  It would be better to just not submit tabloid articles to HN. It doesn't matter if that's where one came across a story first, people deserve a higher quality version of the news.
femto 2y ago
Do a search on "Richard Scolyer", and you will get the details. This is the real deal. Prof. Scolyer and his team are world leaders in treating melanoma with immunotherapy, which they took from a less than 10% to greater than 50% survival rate. When he got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, he and his team figured they would apply the techniques they developed for treating melanoma to his brain cancer. They had to get special dispensation for what is basically an experiment with what was left of his life. The result seems to be that the cancer, one of the deadliest around (as melanoma used to be), has gone. It's only a single data point though, and one year might not be enough to speak with confidence. I gather work is underway to organise a wider clinical trial based on this one result. A paper on this one result is under peer review. The treatment regime was vaccine, followed by surgery to remove the tumour, followed by more vaccine. The initial vaccine dose served to train the immune system to recognise the tumour as foreign, the presence of the tumour being necessary for this to happen effectively. Surgery then removed as much as possible. The vaccines then continued to enable the immune system to mop up any remaining cancer. The above was gleaned from following this is the press, not from having any particular medical knowledge. Even if it's not proof, this result can't be ignored. Scolyer is tracking his progress online: https://www.facebook.com/ProfRScolyer/ https://www.facebook.com/ProfRScolyer/

koolba 2y ago

> Light on details. It’s the NY Post, not the Lancet. I’m impressed the article doesn’t somehow segue into raising money for his treatments on OnlyFans.

anigbrowl 2y ago
It would be better to just not submit tabloid articles to HN. It doesn't matter if that's where one came across a story first, people deserve a higher quality version of the news.

femto 2y ago

Do a search on "Richard Scolyer", and you will get the details. This is the real deal. Prof. Scolyer and his team are world leaders in treating melanoma with immunotherapy, which they took from a less than 10% to greater than 50% survival rate. When he got diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, he and his team figured they would apply the techniques they developed for treating melanoma to his brain cancer. They had to get special dispensation for what is basically an experiment with what was left of his life. The result seems to be that the cancer, one of the deadliest around (as melanoma used to be), has gone. It's only a single data point though, and one year might not be enough to speak with confidence. I gather work is underway to organise a wider clinical trial based on this one result. A paper on this one result is under peer review. The treatment regime was vaccine, followed by surgery to remove the tumour, followed by more vaccine. The initial vaccine dose served to train the immune system to recognise the tumour as foreign, the presence of the tumour being necessary for this to happen effectively. Surgery then removed as much as possible. The vaccines then continued to enable the immune system to mop up any remaining cancer. The above was gleaned from following this is the press, not from having any particular medical knowledge. Even if it's not proof, this result can't be ignored. Scolyer is tracking his progress online: https://www.facebook.com/ProfRScolyer/ https://www.facebook.com/ProfRScolyer/