Living in the future

[daveon]

It's early days for these treatments, and I'm sure a lot of you have seen this, but this looks like a promising way to treat cancers of all types moving forward.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw an earlier, shorter piece on this. I'm excited to bits about it. It's one of the most hopeful things I've heard of in ages.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

That is a way cool idea, but there are so many different kinds of cancer that it seems unlikely it would be safe to use on all of them.

My mom and my brother both have CLL. I will forward the article to them.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I was chatting to a Doctor friend about this and he was of the opinion that we'll end up with a range of treatments like this which will beat and control most forms of cancer.

Fingers crossed. :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Good stuff!

Although I laughed irreverently at this:
'the virus used by his team was “gutted”…'
Sick as a parrot, John.