[Newsbot]

Title: A 'huge milestone': approval of cancer-hunting virus signals new treatment era
Category: Science
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-11-02 13:47:53

[N_Fiddledog]

Curing cancer with Herpes - who woulda thunk?

[BartSimpson]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Curing cancer with Herpes - who woulda thunk?

Pretty impressive stuff!

[uwish]

that's it! I AM LEGEND story running in real life

[Freakinoldguy]

Still no cure though. It's amazing they can find all kinds of treatments for cancer but yet find the cure so elusive.

[DrCaleb]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Still no cure though. It's amazing they can find all kinds of treatments for cancer but yet find the cure so elusive.

The difference between healthy cells and cancer cells is only a few proteins. That makes them hard to tell from good cells.

[Freakinoldguy]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Still no cure though. It's amazing they can find all kinds of treatments for cancer but yet find the cure so elusive.

The difference between healthy cells and cancer cells is only a few proteins. That makes them hard to tell from good cells.

I understand that but given that cancer treatment is a 126.4 billion dollar industry it's quite understandable why the drug companies appear to be putting most or all of their resources into "treating" the illness vice "curing" it.


Call me a cynic but every couple of months or years there seems to be another miracle treatment but still no cure.