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[SneakyStephan]

Hurry the fuck up with this please.

My brother has leukemia, though it has receded 3 years ago after a lot of chemo.
One other kid in the hospital there had the same initial success but it came back a few years later and now he is dead... Same could happen to my brother.

 

[BruiserBear]

I'm always happy to hear of success in the fight against cancer, but I always want to hold back total celebration because unfortunately these early results often don't pan out on a larger scale later on.

 

[Raist]

How did they even think of doing this. That's some outside of the box thinking right there...

The use of HIV-derived vectors for gene/immunotherapy has been going on for ages. 10 years at the very least.

Anyway, before people get too excited (too late?) it's working well but a very specific type of leukemia and ut's really not clear what the side effects will be in the long term.

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[MidnightScott]

I used to hate science but wow, I am glad they can make some discoveries like this.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I used to hate science but wow, I am glad they can make some discoveries like this.

What's so bad about Science?

 

[MidnightScott]

What's so bad about Science?

Let me specify, Science class itself was awful. This is the kind of thing I would rather learn about. Not how to balance a chemical equation.

 

[Marleyman]

"If there's one thing I hate in this life, it's losing. If there's two things I hate, it's losing and getting cancer."

Seriously though, fuck cancer. That is the one thing I wish to see eradicated in my lifetime; not a trip to Mars or contact with a UFO or anything like that, just get rid of cancer THEN we can do cool shit.

 

[Epic Drop]

This is just amazing. My cousin has had leukemia (in and out of remission) since he was an infant - he's 14 now. He was lucky that he had a match for a bone marrow transplant and that it worked pretty well. I hope that further research will show this to be just as effective in the general populace.