FDA Approves Cancer Killing Virus

[DevilishBooster]

This is huge. While this exact announcement may not be related to all cancers and it's not a 100% cure, the fact that it has been approved just opened up huge doors for other viral cures already in the making. I cannot wait to see where this goes!

 

By the numbers, the newest FDA-approved treatment for skin cancer doesn’t seem a real game changer. A $65,000 course of treatment extends melanoma patients’ lives by less than four and a half months, on average—and that result is barely statistically significant.

 

It’s how the new drug—Imlygic, made by the biotechnology company Amgen—works that has the oncology world so worked up. Imlygic is a virus—alive and infectious, the first to get a stamp of approval in the US for its ability to attack cancer cells. It opens a whole new front in the fight against cancer, which has the sneaky habit of coming back after chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. “It is a totally new class of weapons that we can now use,” says Antonio Chiocca, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

 

Source: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/fda-approves-first-virus-will-kill-cancer-cells/

[Remmi2002]

Good.

[DEDRICK]

Pretty sure this is how some zombie/mutant  movies start

[Stardar1]

coincidentally: NPR states that studies have linked Bacon to Cancer, so its a good thing this came along at the same time

[ZetZet]

coincidentally: NPR states that studies have linked Bacon to Cancer, so its a good thing this came along at the same time

meh, it's a "link"

 

 

18% risk is nothing. it's like fuck all + 18% = fuck all 

 

Smoking is 2500% risk and most people smoking still don't get cancer.

[Stardar1]

meh, it's a "link"

 

 

18% risk is nothing. it's like fuck all + 18% = fuck all 

 

Smoking is 2500% risk and most people smoking still don't get cancer.

*holds up sign that says "Sarcasm" on it*

[DevilishBooster]

coincidentally: NPR states that studies have linked Bacon to Cancer, so its a good thing this came along at the same time

 

 

meh, it's a "link"

 

 

18% risk is nothing. it's like fuck all + 18% = fuck all 

 

Smoking is 2500% risk and most people smoking still don't get cancer.

My response to people (read: non-carnivores) I hear talking about that is to scream in their face, "Then stop putting $%&@($# chemicals in my meat!!!". Lol

 

Vegetarian: n. Old Indian word for "bad hunter"

 

read: very dry, tongue-in-cheek sarcasm....

[Syntaxvgm]

What op fails to mention is it's engineered 

 

HERPES 

 

"Got cancer, here have herpes"

(I know, it wont' give you herpes.)

 

 

What's next? Killing aids with ebola? 

[techswede]

I'm excited.. But at the same time i'm a bit worried.. I've seen zombie movies..

[IdortMasterRace]

What has this got to do with tech?

[DevilishBooster]

What op fails to mention is it's engineered 

HERPES 

Uhm.... I thought it was pretty self explanatory that it's an engineered virus.

 

 

If you actually read the article.......

[Stardar1]

My response to people (read: non-carnivores) I hear talking about that is to scream in their face, "Then stop putting $%&@($# chemicals in my meat!!!". Lol

 

Vegetarian: n. Old Indian word for "bad hunter"

to be specific, the link was between processed meats and cancer, as well as unprocessed red meat such as beef

[DevilishBooster]

What has this got to do with tech?

I guess it doesn't, tbh. I was reading Wired so my brain automatically went to the Tech News Forum.

 

Mods: Please move thread to General Discussion.

[ZetZet]

*holds up sign that says "Sarcasm" on it*

you can't do that on the internet. you will find your post one day in some forum of people trying to prove bacon gives you cancer 100%.

 

What's next? Killing aids with ebola? 

 

if it works, yes please?

[DevilishBooster]

to be specific, the link was between processed meats and cancer, as well as unprocessed red meat such as beef

Hence my dislike of meat with a metric crap-ton of chemicals injected into it.

[ZetZet]

Hence my dislike of meat with a metric crap-ton of chemicals injected into it.

there are none injected to it. The only chemicals that are in the meat are the ones that come from crops that they eat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paranoid people are the best. /s

[KemoKa]

Not the first time that viruses have been used to fight cancer. They've used Polio to fight brain tumours. This is not new territory. The new territory is gonna be programming the viruses to checksum cancer cells against healthy cells and destroy the cancer. Virus programming is the next step. Right now it's hit-and-miss.

[Stardar1]

Hence my dislike of meat with a metric crap-ton of chemicals injected into it.

 

there are none injected to it. The only chemicals that are in the meat are the ones that come from crops that they eat.

for processed meats like bolonga, bacon, etc. yes, but according to NPR, this includes an all-natural grass fed steak or ground beef

[DevilishBooster]

there are none injected to it. The only chemicals that are in the meat are the ones that come from crops that they eat.

So you're telling me that none of the hundreds of various artificial preservatives used throughout the food industry are chemicals?

I'm not a food scientist, but I'm pretty sure lots of them are chemicals....

[TheGamingBarrel]

What op fails to mention is it's engineered 

 

HERPES 

 

"Got cancer, here have herpes"

(I know, it wont' give you herpes.)

 

 

What's next? Killing aids with ebola? 

So by your logic, all vaccines shouldn't be used because they have a broken down version of a virus?

[ZetZet]

So you're telling me that none of the hundreds of various artificial preservatives used throughout the food industry are chemicals?

I'm not a food scientist, but I'm pretty sure lots of them are chemicals....

So you mean prepared meat products. Yes those have all kinds of chemicals. 

 

 

So do bananas

 

[DevilishBooster]

So you mean prepared meat products. Yes those have all kinds of chemicals. 

 

 

So do bananas

Hence why 99% of the produce I buy is organic (and yes, I know, some of the bigger organic farms in the industry still use some small amounts of sprays).

[ZetZet]

Hence why 99% of the produce I buy is organic (and yes, I know, some of the bigger organic farms in the industry still use some small amounts of sprays).

organic chemicals are still chemicals, just less efficient ones.

[2FA]

So you're telling me that none of the hundreds of various artificial preservatives used throughout the food industry are chemicals?

I'm not a food scientist, but I'm pretty sure lots of them are chemicals....

But isn't the food itself made out of chemicals?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything is a chemical.

[DevilishBooster]

organic chemicals are still chemicals, just less efficient ones.

A lot of organics that I buy are locally grown so I know that they really are organic, and I would rather eat produce that has significantly fewer chemicals sprayed on than produce that is just drenched in chemicals. I also grow as much of my own veggies as possible, and I hunt for meat.