Cancer Killing Virus

[spathiphyllum]

https://www.news.com.au/national/human-trials-to-begin-next-year-using-a-virus-to-kill-cancer/news-story/f38cd02d2652a2ff3ae90a51b4893423

I'm waiting for Professor Yuman Fong to suddenly go missing.

[spathiphyllum]

Probably just what american food standards does to people. Lets hope we don't implement them here

[pixie374]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/21/nhs-beats-drug-companies-in-100m-avastin-battle-wet-macular-degeneration?espv=1

[spathiphyllum]

Thank you Pixie, proof that the NHS has had to battle big pharma for rights over such drugs.

[Mamyalynne]

The theories on holding back cures for everything from the common cold to cancer have been circulating almost as long as medical research has been going.

[spathiphyllum]

I remember ,recently there was a NHS cancer nurse who had to set up a 'go fund me' so she could raise enough money for the drug Bevacizumab.

[pixie374]

It's the drug you just named as being too expensive... but is commonly used and now cheaper. I do agree pharmacies shouldn't be allowed to "own" cures. But they are- so there is little motivation in keeping them quiet.

[spathiphyllum]

https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/21/nhs-nurse-crowdfund-cancer-treatment-now-remission-7742797/

https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/cancer-nurse-laura-harris-dies-1-5759448

Pixie ^ Note the dates.

[pixie374]

How recently? I know people that have been prescribed it. Are you sure it was for a licensed use?

[spathiphyllum]

Must be a crossed post.

[pixie374]

Earlier then... that is awful, obviously. I am not saying doctors never make mistakes in what they believe will help or not. But that doesn't prove a conspiracy. I have known people given in years ago. And far older than her.

[pixie374]

Yes, x

[dannyk13]

Spath, you have not posted anything in support of your reference to Yuman Fong.

[spathiphyllum]

It was said tongue in cheek, danny.

[Ken4155]

Of those 27% of Americans, i wonder how many believe Elvis is still alive, man didn't land on the moon and the Earth is flat.

[douglas9401]

They walk among us.

[ichkeria]

Medical history’s littered with disastrous attempts to trial drugs on humans that worked on eg mice. Hopefully this is different.
Smallpox i believe was eradicated permanently just 40 years ago. The virus had a particular rare characteristic that made it unable to reinvent itself in the fact of attack. Which I think sadly is why it’s very much in the minority of diseases to have been eradicated.

[woofgang]

douglas, they are breeding as well. The problem with not allowing big pharma to own cures is that they also fund most of the research at their own expense....no profit equals no research.

[ichkeria]

Unfortunately it’s also the case that “no likelihood of future profit” also equals “no research”

[fender62]

you could not silence a cure for cancer, not all countries round the world...

[naomi24]

//There is a conspiracy theory that big pharma is hiding a cancer cure and killing or silencing anyone who finds a cure.//

That makes no sense whatsoever. A cancer killer means that every time someone is diagnosed with cancer, it could be treated and destroyed. The drug company that produces it wouldn’t be keeping it quite. They’d be flogging it around the world and in the money for ever more.