It is about damned time medicine catches up with Cancer!!!

[marine1]

Phenom, it should be for all to benefit.
I wonder if it is in the interests of humanity though. Overpopulation is already a problem.

 

[marine1]

agreed.

 

[Magnarmalok]

Cancer won't go away unless we find a cure and ANY one can have it and I have dormant skin cancer waiting for my pwnage soon.

But Aids... Aids should die out because the rate these people sleep around and die at is astonishing, soon all the people sleeping around would die out and the aids should go away with them in that sense?

The human race is not doomed just stick to good old fashioned values and have a aids test in 7months if you have a new partner and make her/him have one before you get freaky there is the cure.

 

[VertigoZA]

another good reason to pursue stem-cell research..

 

[killadoob]

I can tell you one thing though, aids is slowly but surely taking over the world.

I think Aids is something that needs to dealt with soon or it's going to explode. The only way to cure aids is to basically round up everyone who has it and well ......, that would mean whiping out Half of africa's population though, would not sit well i would imagine.

 

[Magnarmalok]

I'm a huge fan of stem-cells and it's research and pro-abortion at "early stage"

 

[Magnarmalok]

it is not really splinted just the energies around it the core core core tiny part still remains the exterior just goes honky donkey causing chain reactions as they jump to near by atoms causing the same effect and this release shat load of energies but the chain reaction only happens to the few close close atoms.

 

[PeterCH]

I can tell you one thing though, aids is slowly but surely taking over the world.

I think Aids is something that needs to dealt with soon or it's going to explode. The only way to cure aids is to basically round up everyone who has it and well ......, that would mean whiping out Half of africa's population though, would not sit well i would imagine.

Nope it would not sit well.

 

[PeterCH]

another good reason to pursue stem-cell research..

In Cancer research? Stem cells are thought to be useful as 'spare part' cells or cells to replace defective, degenerated or destroyed sections of the body.
In terms of cancer, cancer cells behave like STEM cells. The more nasty the cancer type - the more the cells resemble stem cells - the least differentiated they are. Cells stop looking like the tissue they originate and resemble an embryonic appearance. The research into various cancer treatments can involve 'experimenting' on stem cells but stem cells are not really a substitute to treating cancer because it's not really about replacing defective body parts but finding the cells which have gone out of control and destroying them selectively. Perhaps one day we'll replace our entire bodies every 10 years
or so to avoid physical damage of aging and cancer but that is sci-fi.

 

[PeterCH]

Another manner would be simply replacing the organs arround the effected area, say from a host.
And in this situation, the host may be an headless clone.

Of course, this is ethical, seeing that the clone would not bare any consciousness.

The problem is that when a cancerous tumour is so localised - unless it's in the brain or the spine (rare for spine) it's usually pretty easy to remove it. The biggest problem with tumours is that they spread (metastasis) and by the time you've found the tumour it's seeded to a dozen sites far away including bone, lung, brain etc. Sure if we could replace all these areas it would work but
science is incredibly far away from that, in the meantime working on finding
the causes of oncogenesis and finding ways to selectively suppress it and diagnose it early are key measures IMO.