[extropy-chat] `Cold virus kills skin cancer'

[Mike Lorrey]

I can see an SF plot now: modern viruses are the detuned decendants of
medicines used in an Atlantean civilization to achieve practical
immortality, released into the environment by the earthquake that
destroyed their civilization, this release causing the disease and
suffering of human kind. Xenoarchaeologists locate the ruins and go
searching for unreleased samples, hoping to strike it rich with cures
for all cancers and other genetic diseases, encountering far more than
they expected....

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap at runbox.com> wrote:
> There have been many recent research findings on using viruses for
> the
> treatment of cancer. This is especially interesting because the
> treatment is
> based on a naturally occurring virus rather than an engineered one.
> So
> perhaps there is a naturally evolved mechanism to keep cancer in
> check.
> Perhaps one of the causes of the rise of cancer cases in the second
> half of
> the 20th century is that the progress of medicine has made the work
> of
> cancer killing viruses more difficult.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Damien
> Broderick
> Sent: domingo, 11 de enero de 2004 7:40
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: [extropy-chat] `Cold virus kills skin cancer'
> 
> 
>
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/07/1073268077576.html?from=storyrh
> s
> 
> The virus that causes the common cold can kill skin cancer cells, NSW
> researchers have discovered.
> 
> The University of Newcastle team describe their discovery as a
> breakthrough
> in the treatment of malignant melanoma, Australia's fifth most common
> cancer.
> 
> "The results we have had using human cells and also in animal studies
> have
> been very exciting," lead scientist Professor Darren Shafren said.
> 
> "If we can replicate that success in human trials, the treatment of
> this
> often fatal disease could be available within the next few years."
> 
> [...]
> In human trials, the cold virus, the coxsackievirus, will be injected
> into
> the site of the melanoma.
> 
> Once it starts to replicate itself, Prof Shafren said it is expected
> to
> start killing off the melanoma.
> 
> Within weeks, the cancer should start shrinking and eventually
> disappear.
> [etc]
> 
> 
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=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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