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I'm interested in the other 50%. No affect? Less affect?

• consider_this 13y ago
  I'd like to know this too. If the assumption is that they are marching to death prior to vaccine administration can it get much worse than that?
  • hrkristian 13y ago
    Considering melanoma is lethal, and the treatment (radiating away the entire immune system) bring very risky, this new treatment has the potential to both lower the risk and increase survival rates. I'll be very interested to see if the side-effects are of any concern, or if we're one step closer to a cure.
  • kamjam 13y ago
    I guess it depends on the exact side effects, but if it causes more pain and suffering, then a more painful death is worse than a peaceful one, and on a per person basis - some may take the view they will die anyway and it's worth the risk as a last resort. But good question from the OP.
• cowsandmilk 13y ago
  looks like they died after 55-60 days, instead of dying after <30 days. Source Fig 7B : http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/8ra19/F7.large.jpg http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/8ra19/F7.large.jpg For those without access to science: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872791/figure/F7/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872791/figure/F... (Note the figure quality on pubmed central is really crappy for some reason, but you should get the point, survival from 2 vaccinations is 47% (7/15 mice) shown by the blue line, black dotted line is blank injections)