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If it is the case that there are such treatments (easy to produce, 100% efficacy, no side effect) that cure fairly common deadly disease such as colorectal canc
by d--b 10mo ago
If it is the case that there are such treatments (easy to produce, 100% efficacy, no side effect) that cure fairly common deadly disease such as colorectal cancer in mice, and that never make it to human trial, there is something seriously broken about medical research...
- estearum 10mo agoNo, the issue is that mice are very different from humans. The only thing such a state of affairs clearly indicates is broken is using mice as proto-human test subjects. Which of course, when you state it like that, is obviously suboptimal. But no one knows what to do about it.
- d--b 10mo agoRight, yes, at least that study proved that some bacteria eat cancerous cells in at least one mammal. If that particular bacteria doesn't work in humans it may still trigger a search for a bacteria that does. Still being optimistic about this :)
- estearum 10mo agoYep, it's not wasted effort. This is how science works! Lots of dead ends and then suddenly a breakthrough.
- gus_massa 10mo agoMice are good because they are super cheap. It's useful as a very early test. They used a shotgun approach, they tested 9 bacterias and 1 of them was suspenseful. At least it was suspenseful for 2 weeks, until the study ended. It's very difficult to extrapolate that to the 5 year survival rate in humans.
- estearum 10mo agoCorrect, this is how drug development works.