deluca67 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Has anyone else seen this show on HBO? If freaking amazing and I can't believe it's not the #1 story worldwide. Doctors at the Philadelphia Children's Hospital are curing Leukemia. 90% of 39 pediatric patients treated are in full remission. Some as early as four weeks. It's an amazing story. Doctor's are using a modified version on the HIV virus to attack and kill cancer cells. This has to be the biggest medical breakthrough in my lifetime. If you have a chance to catch it, I suggest it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Our jaws dropped while watching this documentary. To think that the measles, common cold, and HIV viruses can be re-engineered to target and kill bone, brain, and blood cancer cells is beyond amazing. Talk about germ warfare! 2016 can't get here soon enough for the thousands of patients currently suffering from these cancers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude_Verret Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 Interesting, I'll have to check that out. There has been a lot of breakthroughs in recent years with cancer therapies using vectors that deliver their therapeutic payload in a targeted fashion to just the cancerous cells. I worked on a project a few years back around Herceptin, this was one of the first targeted therapies for a specific type of breast cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted March 4, 2015 Report Share Posted March 4, 2015 That does sound amazing, is it available anywhere other than HBO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluca67 Posted March 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 That does sound amazing, is it available anywhere other than HBO?I doubt it, Vice is a Series on HBO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerme1 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Thanks for the heads up Deluca. I will certainly go look for it. Funny but as amazing as modern medicine is, like K-9 says about some common stuff, it's equally amazing what modern medicine can't do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwksndmonster Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Wow. That's something. I'll try to get my hands on the report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTS Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 Love this. I also loved them using stem cell therapy on Howe and seeing his incredible recovery speed from stroke. Lots out there.. this kind of stuff is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattPie Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 NPR was talking about gene therapy last night. I didn't really catch all of it due to the crappy driving, but from the sounds of it gene therapy may turn some things on their heads. The main issue they were talking about was how to charge for them. They're really expensive right now but cheap to make. There was talk of a subscription model where you pay a fixed price as long as the treatment keeps working. Interesting angle is it "pays" for the drug company to do a good job, since you'll be paying more the longer it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dEnnis the Menace Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 This is amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude_Verret Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 For anyone interested in getting into a bit more of the nitty gritty of this technology, without getting bogged down too much in the alphabet soup of molecular immunology jargon, this is a good resource that I found. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/research-updates/2013/CAR-T-Cells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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