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you believe that the drug has been proven as a cure for cancer
It has. I think it's better than the nothing we have currently.
Uh... What? We have loads of treatments at the moment. You'll probably die of cancer before every treatment has been tried, there are that many of them. The problem is that they are quite destructive for both normal cells and cancer cells so you get quite ill from using them. Many people with cancer, especially when they got cancer at a relatively young age eventually get experimental medication to try to fight the cancer as a last resort. The main problem is that you need to eradicate every single cancer cell to truely stop the cancer. Since cancer cells and normal cells are relatively similar this causes major damage to normal cells too.
This drug can destroy the cancer momentarily, and could be used again and again so the cancer will not be able to come back.
Source? In the university news release there was not a single mentioning of momentarily destruction of cancer, nor any mentioning that it could be used multiple times. The article says: "More importantly, they found that the normalization of mitochondrial function resulted in a significant decrease in tumor growth both in test tubes and in animal models."
Decrease in tumor growth doesn't quite sound the same as momentary destruction of cancer...
First, that was from 2008. Second, this has been tested on human cells. It's basically the same if you tested it on humans.
I think you'll find that real humans tend to be quite a bit more complex than just human cells. Cell studies can be helpful, but they can't really fully predict what's going to happen in a real human.
It almost seems you want all the cancer patients to die rather than at least have a drug that can give them a small glimpse of hope.
As I said there are many forms of experimental medication that can be used at the later stages of cancer. This could be one of them. This is why human clinical trials can be started so soon. If it wasn't a last resort measure there would have to be many more animal tests needed before clinical tests on humans could be started.
But we have to be honest with patients, we really don't know if this works any better than other experimental forms of treatment. Just telling a patient you got a miracle cure for cancer when you haven't is just cruel.
It has. I think it's better than the nothing we have currently.
Uh... What? We have loads of treatments at the moment. You'll probably die of cancer before every treatment has been tried, there are that many of them. The problem is that they are quite destructive for both normal cells and cancer cells so you get quite ill from using them. Many people with cancer, especially when they got cancer at a relatively young age eventually get experimental medication to try to fight the cancer as a last resort. The main problem is that you need to eradicate every single cancer cell to truely stop the cancer. Since cancer cells and normal cells are relatively similar this causes major damage to normal cells too.
This drug can destroy the cancer momentarily, and could be used again and again so the cancer will not be able to come back.
Source? In the university news release there was not a single mentioning of momentarily destruction of cancer, nor any mentioning that it could be used multiple times. The article says: "More importantly, they found that the normalization of mitochondrial function resulted in a significant decrease in tumor growth both in test tubes and in animal models."
Decrease in tumor growth doesn't quite sound the same as momentary destruction of cancer...
First, that was from 2008. Second, this has been tested on human cells. It's basically the same if you tested it on humans.
I think you'll find that real humans tend to be quite a bit more complex than just human cells. Cell studies can be helpful, but they can't really fully predict what's going to happen in a real human.
It almost seems you want all the cancer patients to die rather than at least have a drug that can give them a small glimpse of hope.
As I said there are many forms of experimental medication that can be used at the later stages of cancer. This could be one of them. This is why human clinical trials can be started so soon. If it wasn't a last resort measure there would have to be many more animal tests needed before clinical tests on humans could be started.
But we have to be honest with patients, we really don't know if this works any better than other experimental forms of treatment. Just telling a patient you got a miracle cure for cancer when you haven't is just cruel.
