Cuba's Lung Cancer Vaccine Coming To The US!

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(10-30-2015, 02:58 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: You made several.  Each was a train wreck to be honest.  There is no such thing as a "cure" for cancer as you define it.  There are many treatments for cancer currently which "cure" the patient of cancer which you don't consider a cure.  Very simply, cancer is due to abnormal cells.  Abnormal cells are caused by changes in the cell's DNA.  The things which can affect the cell's DNA is practically unlimited.  The only way we can "cure" cancer as you define cure is to prevent anything from affecting the cell's DNA.  That is an impossible task.

Developing new medical treatments starts with brain power because if you can't think it then you can't develop it.  There are smart people all across the globe.  Including Cuba.

Name them.  Since it was several, it shouldn't be hard to come up with them.

(10-30-2015, 04:05 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Brad, every cell in your body is made of protein.  So how is it the protein in question is only used by the cancer cells and not normal cells also?  It has to do with cell surface receptors.  You have to find a surface receptor which is specific to the cancer and not the normal cells.  Since cancer deals with abnormal cells from different tissues within the body; the receptors will most likley be different among each cancer line.  It is a lock and key analogy.  Even if you find a selective receptor for the cancer, you still have to be able to find a protein which will bind to the chemo molecule (without the chemo denaturing the protein) and will still physically fit the cell's receptor on the molecular level.


And to be clear, no one is suppressing a "cure" for cancer.  The first pharmaceutical company with a "cure" for cancer will be the most valuable business in the world overnight.  People would pay any price for that med.

It was a specific type of protein that attacked each cancer.  And it may be used by other cells, but cancer loves protein and attacks it more than other cells.  That is why such high protein diets, like ones with meat, are bad, because the protein feeds cancer cells and helps them grow.

A cure would wipe out the need for all of the drugs to counter chemo and all of the other treatments.  There's more money in the treatment than there is in a cure because it would be impossible to patent, or there would be variations of it and companies would just keep making cheaper ones.