/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.1523018]

hey /sci/
how's it feel to know the cure for cancer is being developed right now? And might (if we're lucky) be available for commercial use within 5 years?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux5QG0eqFqQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_p7TAp2WGg&feature=related

tl;dw
gold nanoparticles fitted with engineered antibodies bind to the corrupted protein tags of a cancer cell. The patient lies on a table and is blasted with radio waves, making the concentrations of gold nanoparticles in the cancer cell heat up and slowly disintegrate. After a few weekly treatments you're cancer free. it's like smart-bomb chemo, and it detects cancer by the one of the few things ALL species of cancer have in common; their protein tags


These two videos have follow ups to the 60 minute special above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AOv-YL8_kE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIq4xcq2Ojo&feature=related


I will post this every day until /sci/ realizes how much potential this method has, and how close it is to trials

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.1523027]

Forgot your tripcode, boros?

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1523031]

Cure for cancer + http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029

[Anonymous No.1523101]

Don't give a fuck. I don't have cancer. By the time I will get cancer world is fucked anyway, might as well shoot myself then.

[Anonymous No.1523203]

>>1523101
what a cheery fellow

[Anonymous No.1523224]

feels bad man

dad's got cancer and he's likely to die just before the cure makes the market.

;_; i will miss you, dad

[Anonymous No.1523244]

>>1523101

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1523247]

>>1523224
DICHLOROACETATE, NOW
WHAT TYPE OF CANCER

[Anonymous No.1523248]

Malthus rolls in his grave

[Anonymous No.1523258]

>>1523248
Malthus was a whiny cuntflap

[Anonymous No.1523262]

>>1523247
liver, and he's not a drinking.

>jump archenemy

[Anonymous No.1523266]

>>1523262
drinker*

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1523268]

>>1523262
http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/CheapSafeDrugKillsMostCancers

Just try it, at least.

[Anonymous No.1523277]

>>1523268
how do i know if this isn't just bullshit?

[Anonymous No.1523273]

>>1523258
And yet you are the one whining about him.

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1523288]

>>1523277
My mother's friend's niece had cervical cancer I think and she couldn't get it operated on because it spread to other parts of her body and she was only a couple of months from dying when they started giving her dichloroacetate and she was fit an healthy in 7 months again with no more cancer.

[Anonymous No.1523293]

>>1523273

[Anonymous No.1523306]

>>1523288
wow, interesting story.

what are the side effects? why hasn't it seen (more) media coverage?

[Anonymous No.1523313]

>>1523306
because its quackary that doesn't stand up to actual testing.

[Inurdaes !lololSGJBw No.1523335]

>>1523306
Because not many pharmaceutical companies are announcing this shit as if they did, there goes the chemo industry. The side effects are:
Reports in the lay press after the 2007 University of Alberta announcement claim that dichloroacetate "has actually been used safely in humans for decades",[38] but the limited scholarly literature suggests side effects of pain, numbness and gait disturbances in some patients.[38] A clinical trial where DCA was given to patients of MELAS (a form of genetically inherited lactic acidosis) at 25 mg/kg/day was ended prematurely due to excessive peripheral nerve toxicity.[39] Dichloroacetate can also have anxiolytic or sedative effects.[8]

DCA is generally well-tolerated, even in children.[40] However, at sustained, higher doses (generally 25 mg/kg/day taken orally, or greater), there is increased risk of several reversible toxicities, especially peripheral neuropathy,[41] neurotoxicity, and gait disturbance.

Doses of 5 mg/kg every three days limits effects from toxicity while maintaining adequate progress, according to a private cancer treatment clinic.[42]

Animal studies suggest that the neuropathy and neurotoxicity during chronic dichloroacetate treatment may be partly due to depletion of thiamine, and thiamine supplementation in rats reduced these effects.[43] However, more recent studies in humans suggest that peripheral neuropathy is a common side effect during chronic DCA treatment, even with coadministration of oral thiamine.[44][45] An additional study reported that 50 mg/kg/day DCA treatment resulted in unsteady gait and lethargy in two patients, with symptoms occurring after one month for one patient and two months for the second. Gait disturbance and consciousness were recovered with cessation of DCA, however sensory nerve action potentials did not recover in one month.[46]

wikipedia.org/dichloroacetic_acid

[Anonymous No.1523339]

>>1523293

[Anonymous No.1524946]

>>1523247
DCA isn't that great, and can have fucked up side effects, but it's worth a shot
this bullshit about it being "underfunded cuz it cannot be patented" is retarded. you can't patent copper, so why are there businesses who mine and sell copper?

[Anonymous No.1526092]

aged

[Anonymous No.1526102]

>>1524946
So patent a method of production.

[Anonymous No.1526497]

Protip: cancer will never be cured, only treatments getting progressivly better. Why. Cos its so fucking lucrative. Chemo drugs makers fucking love it when people relapse.

Also the HUEG cancer charity cottage industry built up around the disease. So theres a cure, you think all those people are just gonna go home now?

ITT depressing truth.

[Anonymous No.1526598]

OP I did a report on this same topic, nanotech + cancer, for all of that shit like nanocantilevers, cancer detection, gold particles, etc. All I will say is 20+ years is a more reasonable window for the FDA hoops. If you are interested in the paper (5pgs) my gmail is hanbacca.

[Anonymous No.1526624]

ITT: People who do not know anything about what nanoparticles do to the body