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This sounds groundbreaking. Could someone with a medical background explain what this might mean?
by sdpurtill 9y ago
This sounds groundbreaking. Could someone with a medical background explain what this might mean?
- justonepost 9y agoGroundbreaking for mice, that’s for sure. Immune therapy in cancer is very promising though. Lots of reasons to be hopeful here.
- lwhalen 9y agoWe have cured cancer in mice many times. The trick is getting it formulated for humans in ways that are similarly effective and non-lethal. Put another way, signs of efficacy in mice is necessary, but not sufficient, of a human-applicable treatment.
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- danieltillett 9y agoAs far as I know we aren’t able to cure cancer in mice. Sure we can cure them of artificial cancers we give them in the lab, but actually curing spontaneous mouse cancer in outbred mouse populations (i.e. something like human cancer) is not something I have ever seen anyone try, let alone succeed.
- taneq 9y agoWouldn't that just mean we don't know whether it works or not?
- danieltillett 9y agoYes, but I was responding to the OP that claimed we know how to cure cancer in mice, when we have never tried. I suspect that we are actually a lot better at curing real cancer in people than in mice.
- taneq 9y agoFair point, I was just saying there's still a good chance it'll work (at least if the induced tumors are anything like 'natural' tumors.) Very interested in seeing how this goes, either way.
- randcraw 9y agoThe article does mention that they also treated a strain of mice that routinely develops tumors in "all ten breasts" and they responded to the therapy too, but not as fully, requiring multiple treatments and not yielding as high a rate of success.