Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?

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cp418 Member Posts: 7,079
edited May 2016 in Clinical Trials, Research News, Podcasts, and Study Results


http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/05/07/is-this-how-well-cure-cancer/

Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?

This story appears in the May 26, 2014 issue of Forbes

 

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  • leggo
    leggo Member Posts: 3,293
    edited May 2014

    My emotions were all over the place while reading this article, but ultimately ended with anger. The greed is astonishing and more prevelant than I thought. Thanks for posting this CP. Fascinating article. The fact that it appeared in Forbes says a lot.

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  • Marie1111
    Marie1111 Member Posts: 7
    edited May 2014

    Immunotherapy is the best chance of a cure for Advanced Cancer as this article says and as we will be told this month at the anual  ASCO meeting.

    What this means though is cancer researchers, Government and  Big Pharma have probably made one of the greatest medical mistakes in history, they have ignored immunotherapy research for over a hundred years since Dr Coley proved its importance.

    Billions have been spent on funding useless cancer drugs and pennies by comparison on Cancer Immunotherapy research.

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  • curveball
    curveball Member Posts: 3,040
    edited May 2014

    The importance of the immune system in cancer may have been known for a hundred years, but the kind of genetic engineering used in this treatment has only become possible in much more recent times.

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  • Marie1111
    Marie1111 Member Posts: 7
    edited May 2014

    there are lots of other promising immunotherapies that have been ignored for over 20 years

    bone marrow transplants for example is a form of immunotherapy.

    even after the recent breakthroughs in immunotherapy ,funding for this by the NIH is less then 1%

    also it is agreed combinations of immunotherapy drugs are best chance of a cure for advanced cancer

    yet big pharma in the past has not wanted to do this, and is only slowly doing this now to avoid public outrage

    there are other promising immunotherapies all of which need to be tried in combination .

     there are over 20 new check point inhibitors being studied , but slowly due to lack of funding reseach here is slow.

    Then theres TIL ACT Immunotherapy which has also been known for over 20 years.

    Immunotherapy has also been ignored because its seen as not as profitable as selling pill type treatments, its more complex

    and the patient doesn t require treatment for life.

     a cure for cancer is now very much an economic issue

    half a million people die of cancer  each year in the USA and 12 million globally.

    the USA spends 800 billion dollars anually on national defense and 5 billion a year on cancer research.

    The USA spent one trillion dollars in Iraq another one trillion in Afganistan and 4 to 5 trillion dollars in the financial

    bail out of 2008 -9  . Total 6 tillion dollars divided by 5 billion = 1200 years of cancer funding 

    reason lots of defense lobbyists in Washington and not many effective Cancer Lobbyists

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2013/12...

    http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2014/nci-08.htm?...

    http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-health...

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  • jc254
    jc254 Member Posts: 439
    edited May 2014

    Plese check out the research of Dr. Brian Czerniecki at Penn.  He is currently trying to secure funding for a phase 3 nationwide clinical trial of a promising breast cancer vaccine.  I was a participant in phase 2 of Dr. Czerniecki's trial.  I have developed  a very strong and measureable immune response to the HER2 protein.  There are trial participants who are almost 10 year out from vaccination who still exhibit an immune response. Although the trial is currently geared towards HER2 postive early stage breast cancers, there are many more potential applications for his breast cancer immunotherapy research.  Lack of funding is the only thing slowing down his progess at this point.  This website has a good explanation in layman's terms of Dr. Czerniecki's research - penniesinaction.org

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  • wirdgirl118
    wirdgirl118 Member Posts: 231
    edited May 2014

    Greed can work in our favor. I believe in immunotherapy. Bring it on!

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  • Ramonica60
    Ramonica60 Member Posts: 23
    edited May 2016

    This is great news. I hope Dr. Czerniecki finds the cure for breast cancer and should focus on his research. He did a nipple sparing mastectomy on me and ruined my nipple-areola complex. I will need a tattoo to fix his sloppiness and this, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of a nipple sparing mastectomy. He told me he does a lot of nipple sparing mastectomies every year. The nurse on the floor during my recovery says she sees about 4 nipple sparing mastectomies per year. Maybe 4 is a lot?

    He should stick with his research and hopefully he will find a cure or a vaccine.

    His now at the Moffat Center in Florida, by the way.

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