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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: bentway who wrote (75411)6/4/2018 3:15:28 PM
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Immunotherapy is going crazy right now. They're finding lots of things that can be cured with it. They even had some success with Keytruda announced against the kind I had but it is only effective for about 20% of patients. But that's 20% who had no options previously.

Cancer is not one disease, it is hundreds. But I feel like we're approaching a time where a generic approach using CAR-T (special T-cells grown in the lab from patient's own) works for many, many cancers.

I don't know if you're a reader but back around 1990 there was a great history of the early immunotherapy research called "The Transformed Cell," if you can find a copy. Genomics has provided the missing link. Those trials were on recurrent melanoma, at the time a death sentence. I have a friend now going into her 7th year based on it.

It is a pretty exciting time for those in the cancer treatment business and the sense that large scale cures is palpable. Doesn't mean all of them, as there are still a number of solid tumors that are difficult. But I think it is coming.

Last week, a friend who had Prostate Ca 14 years ago and had been clear sense was diagnosed with bladder Ca. They had him come in, removed the tumor in an outpatient procedure, and will inject the area with Immunotherapy drugs something like 24 times with the anticipation of a cure.

I think society is on the borderline of curing Ca, but it opens a lot of questions about health care finance going forward, and SS, etc. We could see a sudden increase in lifespan.
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