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Lots of medical "breakthroughs" lately, hmmmm…
Enemy turned ally: Poliovirus is used to fight brain tumors
One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack the cancer, doctors report.
It was the first human test of this and it didn't help most patients or improve median survival. But many who did respond seemed to have long-lasting benefit: About 21 percent were alive at three years versus 4 percent in a comparison group of previous brain tumor patients.
Similar survival trends have been seen with some other therapies that enlist the immune system against different types of cancer. None are sold yet for brain tumors.
"This is really a first step," and doctors were excited to see any survival benefit in a study testing safety, said one researcher, Duke University's Dr. Annick Desjardins.
Preliminary results were to be discussed Tuesday at a conference in Norway and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/enemy-turned-ally-poliovirus-used-110117288.html
Clowns being clowns
Their version of Sound of Silence is my all time favorite. Video is sobering given what we have learned here.
Agree
gool, but mongoose =/= meercat
Power belongs to the People
damn, I need to do more research and less posting!
Can't the SS arrest him at any time?
Seals are interesting creatures