Posted on 02/19/2019 9:39:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An Israeli biotech company has claimed that it will have the cure for cancer within a year, bringing with it a flurry of viral news articles that seem to have accepted these claims at face-value.
The New York Post and The Jerusalem Post both recently featured articles about Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd (AEBi), a company founded in 2000 from the ITEK Weizmann technology incubator. There are a number of very bold claims in both articles, many which are unsubstantiated with no evidence provided by the company. People can largely say whatever they like, after all, but it is just unusual for biotech/pharma companies to do so without significant evidence to back up their claims.
Ilan Morad, listed as CEO of the company, talks in The Jerusalem Post article about the difficulties of cancers becoming resistant to treatment by acquiring mutations, a known issue with any cancer treatment approaches. However, then comes the first red flag:
“Instead of attacking receptors one at a time, we attack receptors three at a time – not even cancer can mutate three receptors at the same time," said Morad.
This is categorically untrue. Cancers can have anywhere from one to tens of thousands of DNA mutations in their genomes, many of these being the "receptors" Morad vaguely refers to. A key principle of using multiple chemotherapy agents at once is to go after cancer cells by several different routes to reduce the chance that they will become resistant. Still, many cancers do become resistant to these treatment protocols, so Morad's logic here is extremely shaky.
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But is there any way the treatment could possibly be proven in a year, even if their approach does work?
"I doubt it, based on what they disclosed to the public. Apparently, the work has only been done in mice. Anything tested in mice has to undergo testing in other animal species, be formulated, and then approved to administration in Phase I clinical trials in humans," said Dr Benjamin G. Neel, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center.
The Israeli company also claims that their therapy will work for all types of cancer. To those involved in cancer research, this is a huge red flag. There are broadly over 200 different types of cancer and within those, multiple other subtypes. For there to be one, universal "cancer cure," that overcomes all of these differences is highly unlikely.
If it ever comes to fruition, it is unlikely to come from a company whose website offers merely two crudely made graphs to prove this and whose chief scientist appears to have largely published in the botanical sciences, the last paper being 17 years ago. A search of the chief scientist on PubMed, which indexes all papers involving medical research returns no results.
"One should never say never in science, but I think it is quite unlikely that we will see a single magic bullet for cancer. We don't have single magic bullets for infectious disease--different infections require different antibiotics, and even then, antibiotic resistance develops. Cancer is not a single disease--its multiple diseases, each caused by different combinations of genetic changes within different types of target cells. We already know how to cure many forms of cancer, and notably, all of these cures are different," said Neel.
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Israeli scientists announce a possible cure for cancer
I bet it is. Think how much money will be lost if a cure really is found.
while questionable, the announcement still could be accurate......
while there are 200+ kinds of cancer, they all share certain characteristics that could lead to a general cure someday
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it would, imho, most likely be a small foreign company (in a very, very high-tech, advanced research setting like Israel and Weizmann Institute of Science) that will find and be able to announce any seriously helpful new medicine or treatment...
(there being just SO much money-making going on by “traditional” meds/treatments/doctors/hospitals.....anything even remotely like a real ‘cure’ from within USA would rock too many boats, could arguably be suppressed before it could see the light of day??? One doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see this possibility....))
“...Think how much money will be lost if a cure really is found....”
Some “tin-foil” types say that the cure was found over 20 years ago, but hushed up and only available to “special” elite people...and never to the “unwashed masses”.
It’s all about the money....BIG money. The cure doesn’t provide the BIG money like “research” and “treating the symptoms” does. IF this is ever proven to be true, certain folks deserve more than just an execution.
A cure for cancer, if there is one, will never see the light of day. Too much money to be made for that to ever happen.
Would depend on who gets it.
Ding,ding,ding! We have a winner! It was telling that when this Israeli claim was published last month, the first naysayer quoted was the head honcho at the American Cancer Society. Think of the thousands of jobs at hospitals and giant cancer centers that would be lost if there was a cure for cancer.
Is Jussie the CEO of this venture?
Cures for cancer, diabetes, and arthritis has been the bread and butter of the checkout stand tabloids for the last fifty years.
Then there will be a cure for aids.
Yup - notice with our current patent system we NEVER find cures anymore - only treatments.
Type 1 diabetes can be done quite easily, but it’s still in Phase 1/2 testing.
Just take a semi-permeable membrane, surround some beta and alpha islets, implant on the abdominal wall, and boom, you have a pancreas.
Exactly! Hundreds of billions in research grants and untold billions in chemotherapy are on the line.
BUMP!
The folks downplaying, almost mocking, a universal cure for cancer will be severely hurt financially if one is found. Who’s to say it hasn’t been found already?
Lots of powerful folks and large amounts of dollars are at work here.
Some people love drinking gasoline. If true, that there a universal cure, then they can continue drinking gas and still live a healthy life.
This is great that a cure exists for poor behavior, like sticking your head in a microwave oven, eating dirt, or living in a garbage dump.
With a cure for bad behavior, we can expect worse behavior. You can continue robbing banks, penalty free.
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