(10-27-2015, 11:22 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Apparently, Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years, and now it's going to come to the US.

Cuba has been researching the drug for 25 years and they've had the vaccine since 2011, which it's offered for free in Cuba because it's only a dollar.  

They say it's only become known recently, but how would a cancer vaccine, even from a country like Cuba, be that unknown?

It says that it is a vaccine for lung cancer, but also may be effective in treating and preventing breast, colorectal, head-and-neck, prostate and ovarian cancers.

A country like Cuba, with an economy that is 8 times smaller than ours, can find a vaccine, but the US, the country with the greatest minds on the planet, can't?

Makes you wonder.

It's a HUGE discovery, though!

Could we be looking at the end of cancer deaths?!

It's worth the read!

(10-27-2015, 11:22 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Could we be looking at the end of cancer deaths?!

(10-27-2015, 04:44 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Probably not yet.  




"To be clear, the CimaVax doesn't cure cancer. It's a therapeutic vaccine that works by targeting the tumor itself, specifically going after the proteins that allow a tumor to keep growing."

(10-27-2015, 05:13 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: If a shot is given once a year (I think that's what it said), and the vaccine prevents a tumor from growing or spreading, how would it not end cancer deaths (at least in those types of cancers)? 

(10-27-2015, 05:30 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't know what article you are talking about, but Cimavax has never been used as a "preventative" vaccine.  The only way it has been used is to attack existing cancer.  

But any discovery like this could lead to a preventative vaccine down the road.  That is how the war against cancer will be won.  Little victories here and there.  I don't think they will come up with any "universal" cure to all the cancers out there any time soon.

Quote:"We think it may be an effective way to prevent cancer from developing or recurring, so that’s where a lot of our team’s excitement comes in,"

(10-27-2015, 11:22 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Apparently, Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years, and now it's going to come to the US.

Cuba has been researching the drug for 25 years and they've had the vaccine since 2011, which it's offered for free in Cuba because it's only a dollar.  

They say it's only become known recently, but how would a cancer vaccine, even from a country like Cuba, be that unknown?

It says that it is a vaccine for lung cancer, but also may be effective in treating and preventing breast, colorectal, head-and-neck, prostate and ovarian cancers.

A country like Cuba, with an economy that is 8 times smaller than ours, can find a vaccine, but the US, the country with the greatest minds on the planet, can't?

Makes you wonder.

It's a HUGE discovery, though!

Could we be looking at the end of cancer deaths?!

It's worth the read!

(10-28-2015, 01:56 AM)xxlt Wrote: Hoyt? how can this be? Everyone knows America's health care system is the envy of the world?

(10-28-2015, 07:52 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: And many of us have huge bills to prove It.

(10-27-2015, 05:13 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: If a shot is given once a year (I think that's what it said), and the vaccine prevents a tumor from growing or spreading, how would it not end cancer deaths (at least in those types of cancers)?  

Actually, if it starts tumors from growing in the first place, then how would they even grow to be a tumor?

But just like the treatment of wrapping chemo in protein, I wonder if they'll even find a way to silence this, just like they did that (or at least I haven't been able to find anything on it).

(10-27-2015, 11:22 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years,



They say it's only become known recently, but how would a cancer vaccine, even from a country like Cuba, be that unknown?

(10-28-2015, 07:41 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

(10-28-2015, 08:21 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: I would venture to say the second phrase should read "it's only become known outside of Cuba recently"

(10-29-2015, 02:46 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Have you ever read one of Brad's cancer threads before?

(10-29-2015, 04:17 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: What about the wrapping Chemo in protein, where'd that go?

(10-29-2015, 04:17 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: However, you think Cuba and its limited resources could really find a cure before us?

(10-29-2015, 05:32 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Who said it disappeared?

(10-29-2015, 05:35 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I haven't been able to find anything on it in the news or on any websites.

Have you?

(10-29-2015, 05:43 PM)fredtoast Wrote:  Interleukin-2?