Kilton Wrote:
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> lmgtfy Wrote:
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> > No closer? Have you been living under a rock?
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http://www.cancerprogress.net/timeline/major-miles
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> > tones-against-cancer
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> No closer, as that link proves. The illusive "cure
> for cancer" is nowhere to be found. Treatment for
> a given disease always improves over time. Nothing
> to do with truly curing it though. Perhaps you
> just don't know what 'cure' means? :-)
Tell the folks at the American Society of Clinical Oncology who run the website. Maybe they don't know what "cure" means, but something tells me they know a bit more than you about the subject. Here's what they have to say:
January 1, 1947
First-ever remission of pediatric leukemia
Sidney Farber, a physician at Children's Hospital Boston, achieves the first partial remission of pediatric leukemia in a 4-year-old girl using the drug aminopterin. He soon documents 10 cases of remission in a landmark scientific paper. Until this time, children with acute leukemia usually died within weeks of being diagnosed. While early remissions prove temporary, they pave the way for therapies that
cure thousands of patients in the decades to come, allowing most childhood cancer patients to live long, healthy lives.
1958
Pioneering "combination chemotherapy"
cures leukemia
NCI scientists demonstrate that combination chemotherapy – in which multiple drugs are administered together – can cause remissions in both children and adults with acute leukemia. Their findings set the stage for nearly all modern chemotherapy, in which drug combinations, dosing and scheduling have been carefully refined to maximize effectiveness while minimizing side effects.
1965
Chemotherapy found to
cure Hodgkin lymphoma
Researchers led by Vincent DeVita discover that a new chemotherapy regimen called MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone)
cures up to 50 percent of patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma. This regimen quickly becomes the standard treatment. In the 1970s, a different chemotherapy combination (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine – known as ABVD) proves even more effective,
curing about 70 percent of patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma. The ABVD combination remains a mainstay of treatment today.
1977
New treatments
cure men with testicular cancer
A pivotal trial shows that combining the drugs cisplatin, vinblastine (Velban, Velsar) and bleomycin (Blenoxane) can
cure 70 percent of patients with advanced testicular cancer. Cisplatin is approved by the FDA the following year. Today, the overall
cure rate for testicular cancer (all stages) is a remarkable 95 percent.
etc., etc., etc.
> Obviously TDD (Testosterone Deficiency Disease) is
> responsible for the lack of a cure for cancer. In
> effect, TDD causes cancer. It's a darn shame is
> what it is.
I think it is more responsible for internet trolling, which is a trait exhibited by those with mental disorders. Trolling correlates positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. Trolls have to make up for that lack of testosterone somehow, right?