Good news - my Uber driver this morning said cancer should be basically cured within 7 years

eyhsyr wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

He said you won't believe some of the stuff that's coming out in the next 3 years! He heard it from the last woman he dropped off, who was some sort of biology researcher at the big regional hospital network.

Anyway just thought I'd pass on the great news. Remember you heard it here first!

My brother died of cancer. I would punch you HARD in the face now if I could.

Fvcking idiot!

Show some respect, you poor excuse for a human life!

I’ve had a rough two weeks with cancer diagnoses in the family; one with lung cancer and another with skin cancer. However, the original post was clearly not about “cancer” per se but rather was about “crazy things Uber drivers say.” Sorry your brother died of cancer, and I can see why that would make you upset, but it’s actually clear the OP was disrespecting those who have lost friends or family to cancer.

If you want to punch Hardloper for his f’d up political views, that’s a whole other story.

* was NOT disrespecting

The good news is that progress is being made on cancer treatments. Over a dozen therapies exist for prostate cancer today. Twenty years ago, there were only a few.

The bad news is that cancer is not a single disease, but an umbrella term to cover hundreds of diseases.

What the Uber driver might have been referring to are advances in youthening the body so its immune system can fight cancer as well as the immune systems in a young person.

We all have cancerous cells, right now. Cancer occurs when our immune systems are too impaired to destroy cancerous cells before they can multiply out of control. This is the holy grail of cancer research... to boost the immune system back to youthful levels so cancer can't get a handhold to multiply.

I was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma 3a earlier in the year. The front line treatment for my disease is a mono-clonal anti-body and traditional chemo theraphy. The mono-clonal anti-body targets an antigen in the lymphatic B-cells identified as CD20. I had a deep tissue biopsy of a lymph node early in the process, one to identify the specific nature of the disease, and for chromosome testing. At the chromosome six level there are markers that could indicate a greater chance for a disease relapse. Interestingly Sloan-Kettering has a clinical trial where there is testing to turn off the troubling marker at the chromosome level.

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Sloan-Kettering work for those interested:

https://www.mskcc.org/blog/when-loss-gain-new-tumor-suppressor-gene-identified-follicular-lymphoma

Not Leukemia!

eyhsyr wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

He said you won't believe some of the stuff that's coming out in the next 3 years! He heard it from the last woman he dropped off, who was some sort of biology researcher at the big regional hospital network.

Anyway just thought I'd pass on the great news. Remember you heard it here first!

My brother died of cancer. I would punch you HARD in the face now if I could.

Fvcking idiot!

Show some respect, you poor excuse for a human life!

You've just encouraged him, much to the dismay of everyone else here.

Gravy trainer wrote:

Seriously, the cancer research industry has no reason to put itself out of business by "curing" it.

This is one of the sillier arguments made. There would be a LOT more money in selling drugs or therapies that cure cancer than there is in researching them.