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Posted 3/23/2010 4:23 PM (GMT 0)
I apologize if this has been posted before, but if it hasn't I'm sure it will be of interest to all here. 

It's quite amazing.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100309/reovirus_100309/20100309?hub=Health 

Sheldon  AKA  Sleepless

Posted 3/23/2010 4:34 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Sheldon,

Thanks for the heads up on this interesting report. Hopefully this procedure will turn out to be another tool in fighting this disease.

All the best to you.

Magaboo

Posted 3/23/2010 5:05 PM (GMT 0)
THanks for posting, an interesting report
Posted 3/23/2010 5:12 PM (GMT 0)
Hi David, wouldn't it be wonderful if this treatment worked for at least some of us?

Thinking of you always.

Sheldon AKA Sleepless
Posted 3/23/2010 9:07 PM (GMT 0)

Thanks for the link.  Great news!!

Skeener

Posted 3/23/2010 11:13 PM (GMT 0)
How soon is big question for patients awaiting? Looks promising.
Posted 3/23/2010 11:28 PM (GMT 0)
Sheldon, re-read the article again to let it sink in. It almost sounds too simple a solution, but what a major breakthrough in killing a variety of cancers this could be. I would take flu symptons for a month if it meant getting rid of PC.
Posted 3/24/2010 1:10 AM (GMT 0)
Sounds almost too good to be true. Can't help but remember a Biology class example where the common sparrow was introduced in Boston to eradicate canker worms. Wow, did that get out of hand.

Hopefully we can program these little mutatable viruses to do just what they are needed to do , and die. Can almost imagine a sci-fi movie with bad coinsequences .

Can't help it, overactive imagination. Some might even call me other names.
Posted 3/24/2010 6:23 PM (GMT 0)
Here's another exciting technology that offers promise in fighting cancer at the cell level:
http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo)

Not sure I'm allowed to post links so if it gets removed google nanobots and cancer.
Posted 3/25/2010 1:54 AM (GMT 0)

zufus said...
How soon is big question for patients awaiting? Looks promising.

Being that it was just successful in mice, I would estimate 5 or more years before it even begins Phase I human trials.
If it even makes it that far... not to be negative, just trying to be realistic.
Posted 3/25/2010 1:58 AM (GMT 0)

eggbe said...
Here's another exciting technology that offers promise in fighting cancer at the cell level:
http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+(Gizmodo)

Not sure I'm allowed to post links so if it gets removed google nanobots and cancer.

Here I go again with a dose of reality, sorry. As one of the commentors points out
"Most importantly, the editor could explain how long it would take to get a product like this to market (~10-12 years) and thus not get people excited about this new tech, only to later be disappointed when they find out that it is a long way out."
Posted 3/25/2010 2:45 AM (GMT 0)
Hi David E,

While well aware of the U.S. approach to medical science (not good unless invented here) and the general uncertainty about Canadians (even Vice Presidents down there keep saying 9-11 terrorists entered the country from Canada when the only Canadian connection to 9-11 was welcoming all those big American airliners at our airports and take the risk when their home ports would not let them land) I must protest that six Calgary men are mice.

Granted, our Alberta types are unusual. But DNA wise I assure you they are close enough to homo sapiens that many Americans (I am told) are willing to consider a heart transplant from one if nothing better is available south of the 49th and there are just hours to live.

While, if HIFU is anything to go by, it may well be five years before any Phase 1 human trials are even considered in the U. S. I suspect much sooner another human study (albeit of the Canadian sort) will be underway.


And, I trust, my American friends here will read the above with the same sense of humor and fun with which it was written.

Sheldon AKA Sleepless
Posted 3/25/2010 3:47 AM (GMT 0)
You maybe right David E but the fact that it is currently in human trials is encouraging and noteworthy, should it prove to be a real way to cure most cancer there better be a fast track for this technology. I do find it dissapointing how the inventor of the PSA test says it is causing uneccesary treatment and if thats the case why not hurry up and allow treatment that is less invasive and has less side effects like HIFU be available in the U.S.A. How do we start a medical revolution?
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