TrappedJoel
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Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/first-time-in-history-cancer-vanishes-for-every-patient-in-drug-trial-3044922
Jun 7, 2022 3:29 PM
TrappedJoel
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Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/first-time-in-history-cancer-vanishes-for-every-patient-in-drug-trial-3044922
ChronosTRG
share quickly before this disappears
Scotti3mcb00gerballs
I have 10 years before I'm 40 and need a special check in regularly so this would be so great!
smartestguyintheroom
Tell Farrah Fawcett
tondemonai
So this will be patented and locked away, since the money is in managing symptoms, not curing disease
jargonmon
It IS exciting. Until big pharma sets the price and insurance won't cover it because it cost more than you dying.
HogWashDiddler
nsepete69
Hope it's not Dr Alice Crippen
KoalaOnTheJuice
Bad news for rectal cancer fans..
SkamanSam
Needa a larger trial.
jeffpesos
Cancer got fucked in the ass!
etherealvision
Let's GOOOOO
PictureArchiver
Very small sample size, good news nonetheless!
factotumjack
My aunt died of this. My dad nearly died of this. I've been basically waiting to hear that I'll get it. This is huge.
dbear6710
They will all die from suicide and it will never be released
intruder01
I wish a had a dollar for every story like that I have read in the last 50 years.
SkeletorXD
Please don't let this company or research somehow disappear.
jammer909
Finally, some good fucking news.
wwilddoge
Fuck cancer!
bluto1415
You cured butt cancer congratulations. Now cure cigarette cancer.
Mec26
One very specific cancer. Just the one. Headlines suck.
IrrelevantOutsideOfMyBubble
Still exciting, but it's worth understanding that this is most likely a baby step of progress.
MeisterKleister
Sounds great. Need to repeat the study to make sure this wasn't a fluke.
jsdigman6
And the cure will NEVER see the light of day..thank you American Healthcare system and good Ole capitalism
Ragabash1
Goldman Sachs Asks: ‘Is Curing Patients A Sustainable Business Model? This is my fear, but yeah fuck cancer. Chemo being unneeded is a dream
taqPCR
And the answer was yes.
skwrl71
It's already a marketed product and it didn't eliminate chemo. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445
icommentwithsteveharvey
I'm sure Republicans will be against this because if you cure them you cant rake in massive profits by grifting their followers
hardytardigrade
They can be against it all they want, I don't know what more they'd be able to do to prevent access to things like this.
TrappedJoel
I didn’t know being a republican gave you cancer immunity
thatsbadmmkay
Pharmaceuticals is one of those industries that funds both partys campaigns with very few exceptions in the democratic party.
FatBastardVegetarian
Has there ever been any trial that successful? This is nuts.
IrrelevantOutsideOfMyBubble
The cool bit is they were expecting the patients to still need chemo etc. afterward, but they didn't.
FatBastardVegetarian
This is crazy awesome.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Spread this far and wide before it gets buried by the next shooting
bangbangbangbangbangbangbangban
Hehe.. spread far and wide
gheorghiumihai77
Spread? We are talking about between cheeks cancer....so....spread.....nice choice of words.
Youhavinagiraffe
Please stop with this bullshit. The reason medical "breakthroughs" disappear is there are tons of things that can stop a small trial like...
Youhavinagiraffe
...this from being scaleable. Also there are enough trials going on that good results can happen by chance. This is really promising but...
Youhavinagiraffe
...could easily amount to nothing without the Illuminati lifting a finger! They're all too busy shredding all their Epstein receipts anyway
PaulHavingABall
Even the people taking the control placebo?
IrrelevantOutsideOfMyBubble
Placebos aren't always used for preliminary studies
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
I don't think they give placebos to cancer patients, just saying.
kushezz
They give whatever the regular current treatment is to see if it performs better. Technically a placebo, but not nothing placebo
DespiseEveryone
Not all studies include placebo's especially when the results aren't subjective. For a new treatment for broken bones you do not let people
DespiseEveryone
just hobble about on a broken leg. Cancer is not subjective. It is there or it is not.
IrrelevantOutsideOfMyBubble
The placebo effect isn't subjective. Even for a broken bone it could cause someone to heal faster, which is an objective result.
FaecalJacksonPollock
Gone are the days of wishing for your enemies to get ass cancer.
Typhon2727
Dammit! That was one of my keys moves.
SanguiniusRex
Pikka
How are the Scott Tenormans of the world gonna get to meet Radiohead now?
PootisBirb
TaintToucher
Can still wish for a lifetime of rectal bleeding and sore wiping
MisuseOfLiterally
are you the asshole (pun intended) that cursed me with a sensitive asshole?
usafsmith8408
invaderjak
Fuck yeah! Fuck Cancer!
logjammin1
I bet you'd like that, you freak
ohwhenwilldeathcome
Fuck cancer except, specifically, the cancer that’s killing Putin.
invaderjak
In Russia, cancer fucks Putin!
Korbo
...in the ass!
bwizzle360
Rectum, damn near killed em’.
HUNGmunculus
thegelatoking
DarthVella
Hey, what did yeah ever do to you?!?
invaderjak
Uhh, gave me a confused boner?
DarthVella
Understandable. Have a great day
LooseyGooseyBrett
Great, but 18 participants isn't really enought for a statistically significant result
invaderjak
Is this not another step in humanity's battle against cancer?
laserfork
It's a good reason to another, much larger trial, but that's about it, yeah.
tesseract4d2
I mean, if they were being exclusively treated by this drug, then I'd say it's statistically significant, just not a big enough sample to
tesseract4d2
Claim it works unilaterally. 18 people going from cancer to no-cancer is pretty definitive.
OhMyYoureSexxy
It’s a great start
Rainbowdaesh
Spoke to my partner about this (who's a PhD and research scientist). First, this cancer really only affects those with HPV. Second, /2
squishybaker
The trial was a more of does this shit work in people type of trial, I'm only in discovery not clinical so I'm dumb in this area.
joinha
It is true that it's a very specific kind of tumor, but the "great standard of care" your partner mentions includes going assless forever...
Nakiepanda
I have colorectal cancer. They removed half of the bowel, and I can assure you I still have an ass lol
joinha
this drug is for rectal cancer, another disease (and congrats on your treatment)
Rainbowdaesh
Nahh. It does require removal of some of the colon but only rarely would you need a colostomy bad post surgery.
joinha
Nope. You are thinking about colon cancer, this drug is for rectal ones
flavivsaetivs
Yeah my first thought was "that's a small sample size."
skwrl71
Super small for a Phase 2, which means they were really, really tailoring it.
keowns44
Not to 18 people
Rainbowdaesh
There was already a great standard of care for this cancer, but if this holds up the drugs will be better. Third /3
Rainbowdaesh
They excluded a bunch of people in this trial so while incredibly promising it's not as much of a "we cured cancer" as people are thinking.
laughoutloud74
It never is
RenegadeSci
There are 100s of cancers and this subtype of rectal didn't react well to chemo. This is a breakthrough for them.
nosaucesbutapplesauces
They always exclude a bunch of people. They need to make the patients as similar as possible. For science.
RawChicken
Thank you, you da real MVP!
Chimponzoo
It is still very impressive, find out why and tweek for others, even if it only works on the cancers like to HPV Infections.
Chimponzoo
Also, if between the age of 16 - 26 get the HPV vaccine.
Alfadorfox
Baby steps forward are still steps forward.
CandidGamera
Acting like baby steps are FUCK YEAH WE CURED CANCER is steps back for science communication, though.
Alfadorfox
I mean that's more like status quo for the past several decades, to be honest. Sensationalist news gonna sensationalize.
Navrodel
Yeah "18 people" threw up some immediate "this is hyper-specific and/or limited" caution flags. But I'll take all the good news I can get.
fishbicyclerepairman
Cancer treatment has been moving toward the hyper specific, that is to say individual approach for some time now
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
Yes, small trial. Hyperspecific. Needs more trials to verify not a fluke. If you get that hyperspecific cancer though, fuck yea, hope!
FaecalEncephalopathy
It is a limited trial, but even in that small a trial, a 100% success rate is remarkable
b0mtombadil
18 instances of a complete cure for a specific type of cancer is still a huge step
palmo
Remission isn't a cure. Cancer is a long term illness and 6 months remission it's great. But it could very well come back worse for them all
StanielRonathan
Yes, and it's why people NEED to read to the study itself, headlines are always hyper sensationalized & overpromise from what the study says
nosaucesbutapplesauces
I’m overly educated, but not in the medical field at all, and honestly… those studies are really really fucking difficult to read.
nosaucesbutapplesauces
At least link it. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04165772