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Saturday, September 24 - 3:13amSanction this postReply
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It's really good news.



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Saturday, September 24 - 4:19pmSanction this postReply
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The "terminator" viruses have the potential to become effective treatments for a wide range of tumors - such as ovarian, pancreatic, breast, brain (glioma), prostate, skin (melanoma) and colon cancer  ...The present cancer "terminator" viruses represent the next generation of therapeutic viruses that permit replication uniquely in cancer cells with simultaneous production of immune modulating and toxic genes. These viruses effectively eliminate primary tumors and distant tumors (metastases) without harming normal cells or tissues.

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Yes, this is great news.  At first I thought it was only about prostate cancer, but there is also the added potential of treating many other  types of cancer as well.  I hope it is successful and gets through the process quickly.  

I would really love to see them cure cancer, diabetes, AIDS, Alzheimers or any other major disease during my lifetime.  It would be great to just pick up the morning paper one day and see a great big headline saying, "Cancer Cured!" 

Thanks Adam for another inspiring story of the human mind doing great things for human kind.  

Kat





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Saturday, September 24 - 5:24pmSanction this postReply
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That would be an interesting slogan - "The human mind - doing great things for the human kind"...



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Saturday, September 24 - 6:32pmSanction this postReply
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According the CDC:
"Hepatitis B vaccine prevents hepatitis B disease and its serious consequences like hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). Therefore, this is the first anti-cancer vaccine."
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/b/factvax.htm

And the good news continues:
Cancer Vaccine Is Best In Class

Three-part carbohydrate vaccine elicits strong anticancer response

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i37/8337notw3.html

In fact, just last year ...
UPDATED: 08:17, November 24, 2004
Chinese anti-cancer vaccine approved for clinical research
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A vaccine developed by Chinese scientists to restrain or even kill cancer cells was recently approved for clinical research at Shanghai hospitals.
http://english.people.com.cn/200411/24/eng20041124_164951.html

COMPETITION IS HEATING UP!

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Anti-Cancer Vaccine with Roots in Rochester Moves Forward

A vaccine to prevent a type of cancer that kills more than 250,000 women around the globe every year is expected to become available within a year or two, thanks in large part to technology developed by scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Vaccines that prevent cervical cancer are in the final stages of testing in studies by two companies, Merck and Co. and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Earlier this month the two pharmaceutical giants agreed on a settlement involving patents and royalties related to the vaccines, clearing the way for continued development of their products.

BUT IN TIME-HONORED TRADITION, THE RUSSIANS HAD IT FIRST:
13:00 2001-09-18

ANTI-CANCER VACCINE INVENTED BY RUSSIAN SCIENTIST

Vet scientist from Maritime region Vassili Britov has taken out Russian patent N 2172182 which officially confirms the vaccine educed by him to be an effective mean against cancer. Patents for “Britov’s vaccine” are being registered now in 130 countries. According to Vassili Britov, he had for 20 years to get over different bureaucracy barriers and ambitious positions of medicine authorities to obtain his vaccine to be acknowledged.
In 1978 Britov noticed that animals infected with trichinosis never have cancer, though it is spread among animals as well. The scientist tried to specially inject trichinosis’s bacterium into animal organism. Numerous experiments with mice and rats and than with animals suffering from cancer gave encouraging results. Britov started to treat people for cancer with this mean. The vaccine was tested on patients suffering from cancer of intestines, respiratory tract, liver and kidney. More than 50 people were healed during this experiment, RIA ‘Novosti’ reports.

 http://english.pravda.ru/culture/2001/09/18/15450.html

It just seems to me that if government research labs could cure cancer, someone in government would have figured out something much simpler a long time ago, such as how to lay a good road or harvest enough food to feed the farmers who plant it or, heck, who knows, run a school system.




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