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Scientists Might Have Accidentally Cured Cancer
Daily Caller ^ | 1/21/2020 | PHILLIP NIETO

Posted on 01/21/2020 8:11:29 PM PST by bitt

New treatment for killing cancer cells may have accidentally been discovered by a group of British scientists, according to reports.

Cardiff University’s research team found a T-Cell that attaches itself onto human cancers, and kills them while ignoring healthy cells. Although in its early stages of development, the treatment successfully destroys bone, lung, breast, colon, prostate, and other cancers, The Telegraph reported. (RELATED: Alex Trebek Announces He Was Diagnosed With Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer)

Originally, researchers were only looking for immune cells that were capable of fighting bacteria, before they discovered the T-Cell virus. Their findings were made available on Monday.

“There’s a chance here to treat every patient,” Professor Andrew Sewell of Cardiff University told the BBC. “Previously nobody believed this could be possible. It raises the prospect of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ cancer treatment, a single type of T-cell that could be capable of destroying many different types of cancers across the population.”

A T-cell is a white blood cell in the immune system that fights off cancers and helps prevent the body from getting infected. Researchers note the receptors on the newly discovered T-cells may be able to locate cancers by using the molecule known as MR1. They believe this molecule could be alerting the T-cells of the infected metabolism present on cancerous cells.

“We are the first to describe a T-cell that finds MR1 in cancer cells—that hasn’t been done before, this is the first of its kind,” the studies co-author Gary Dolton said to the BBC.

In the past, researchers have gained knowledge of the human immune system through the growth of cancer immunotherapy. One of the most successful being that of CAR-T, better known as a drug made by genetically modifying an individuals T-Cell’s to destroy cancerous regions of the body, as reported by Newsweek.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; cancercure; chat; chatforum; cureforcancer; health; immunesystem; immunology; medicine; tcells
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To: Rastus

[You won’t hear much more about this. Too much money in treating cancer and in researching eliminating cancer to actually eliminate it.]


You think Bill Gates will shrink from spending $1b on research for curing cancer and getting credit for it? The issue isn’t lack of funding - it’s scientists jumping the gun. They make broad claims before the evidence is completely in, so someone else also looking into this doesn’t steal their thunder. Months or years later, it turns out to be a cold fusion kind of mirage.


21 posted on 01/21/2020 8:39:08 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: bitt

22 posted on 01/21/2020 8:40:08 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Rastus

You’re forgetting something. Trump killed the deep state.


23 posted on 01/21/2020 8:40:26 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Right up there with that Cold Fusion the Utah scientists discovered 20 years ago

And it’s still just 10 years away from being commercially available...

AOC sez the world will end in 12 years...
Dang, it’s always SOMETHING !!!


24 posted on 01/21/2020 8:41:23 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Rastus

[You won’t hear much more about this. Too much money in treating cancer and in researching eliminating cancer to actually eliminate it.]


There’s also a monetary aspect to it you don’t hear much about. Making expansive claims is a way to get big money funding. How do you think global warming hysteria became a trillion dollar industry? Whether or not the claims of a cancer cure pan out is many years and many millions of dollars of grant funding away.


25 posted on 01/21/2020 8:46:15 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Fungi

I agree. “May” would have been better.


26 posted on 01/21/2020 8:50:03 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Rastus

Either that or God doesn’t want us to have the cure to teach us a lesson.


27 posted on 01/21/2020 8:54:03 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Fungi

“Might?” A very big word.

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Yep. This is 99% fake news, and this is the third or fourth FR article on the subject.


28 posted on 01/21/2020 8:54:57 PM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Rastus
"You won’t hear much more about this. Too much money in treating cancer and in researching eliminating cancer to actually eliminate it."

That's a Marxist view of the world. In reality, many very successful industries have been made obsolete by new technologies. It's how the world really works.

29 posted on 01/21/2020 8:58:00 PM PST by mlo
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To: bitt

CNN Reports that Trump is putting Cancer Research Scientests out of work.


30 posted on 01/21/2020 8:58:10 PM PST by YOMO
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To: Buffalo Head

And that was one helluva net-positive trade off right there, wasn’t it? LOL!


31 posted on 01/21/2020 9:02:41 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: bitt
I recently saw a report that deaths from cancer have declined about 30% over the last 20 years.

I am recurrence free after five years after taking one of the targetted "miracle" drugs. Incredibly expensive and almost totally covered by my insurance.

The same drug has reduced the five year mortality rate of chronic myeloid leukemia from 90% to about 40% (from memory so maybe off some).

This same drug now is available as a generic and has three manufacturers.

32 posted on 01/21/2020 9:02:49 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Sequoyah101

If you don’t want to spend 25% of your wealth on medical treatments that save your life - don’t.

It’s not a conspiracy by drug companies that causes there to be lots of stuff that will kill you without medical treatment.


33 posted on 01/21/2020 9:04:54 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Viking2002
And by accident?

Most major scientific breakthroughs have been serendipitous. "Directed" research really only works for extending fundamental concepts, not finding them.

34 posted on 01/21/2020 9:07:25 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: bitt

Didn’t Trump recently sign into a law a bill that would allow terminal patients to use whatever experimental treatments available even if not approved by whatever gov agency does that?

Seems to me all cancers are terminal so anyone with it should be able to try this treatment at the earliest possible time after being diagnosed.


35 posted on 01/21/2020 9:17:58 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: pissant
"Right up there with that Cold Fusion the Utah scientists discovered 20 years ago"

Hopefully this thing is real.

36 posted on 01/21/2020 9:22:45 PM PST by mlo
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To: bitt

supposedly it kicks immune system into high gear too- but what about folks with autoimmune systems- kicking immune system into higher gear would be bad for them- and cause their autoimmune disease to attack healthy tissue even more?


37 posted on 01/21/2020 9:38:56 PM PST by Bob434
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To: neverevergiveup

POTUS @ Davos (28:00): “we are continuing to work on things that you’ll hear about in the near future that even today sitting here right now you wouldn’t believe it’s possible that WE HAVE FOUND THE ANSWERS ...
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38 posted on 01/21/2020 9:54:05 PM PST by bitt (A government afraid of its citizens should be afraid.)
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To: bitt

That would be cool. Prayers up! Cancer sucks.


39 posted on 01/21/2020 9:56:12 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: neverevergiveup

Excellent post! Very well said.

This may or may not be the great cure for cancer they’ve been looking for for so long but I have always been sure that one day they will find it.


40 posted on 01/21/2020 10:00:14 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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