Cancer is cured, no one cares.

[BlindMessiah94]

http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice

Basically what the article says is scientists have discovered a simple, cheap, effective cure for cancer, that requires no patents. No one is taking interest or notice or backing this however because the major pharmaceutical companies can not make money off of this cure, since it is a very basic drug and cannot be patented. As a result, people are dying because companies with no conscience aren't able to make a quick buck. The worst part is, the media isn't jumping for joy and spreading the news like wildfire that there is a cure for cancer, but is just letting this go silent.

What do you guys make of all this? Also I encourage everyone to post this everywhere and tell your friends.

EDIT: Okay, sorry to everyone that already heard about this, and sorry about not using the search bar. I was just in such a rage after hearing about this, and I haven't been on the internet for a few days. If the mods want to close the thread please do. But in the meantime if you don't have anything better to say than "This was already posted last week", I get it, I already know, let's move on.

 

[Palademon]

This was mentioned last week I think. And then someone said it was old news.

 

[ThePirateMan]

Hoooooly shit.

That's pretty cool.

I feel like I'm being trolled though.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

I think I read this somewhere and I'm completely baffled. I mean, I know all industries rely on profit and that's what makes them work, but this...

What's worse, it seems to be a really old article, at least SOME media attention would be normal. Guess there won't be any "and make a cure for cancer" jokes if this gets popular/known/I don't have a word for it.

 

[Tulks]

Is this the mitochondria thing from Canadian researchers? We heard.

If it's kosher, I hope it goes somewhere.

 

[Zac Smith]

As 1st comment said, this was already mentioned last week. But it's bull though, the world works on money

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Can we stop with starting the same thread over and over again? It's always the same link posted (which BTW is painfully wrong about biology), and then someone comes and explains what the situation is actually like.

I might start reporting those threads soon.

 

[The Bucket]

http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice

Basically what the article says is scientists have discovered a simple, cheap, effective cure for cancer, that requires no patents. No one is taking interest or notice or backing this however because the major pharmaceutical companies can not make money off of this cure, since it is a very basic drug and cannot be patented. As a result, people are dying because companies with no conscience aren't able to make a quick buck. The worst part is, the media isn't jumping for joy and spreading the news like wildfire that there is a cure for cancer, but is just letting this go silent.

What do you guys make of all this? Also I encourage everyone to post this everywhere and tell your friends.

Yeah, I think this was posted last week. A lot of people who seemed to know what they were talking about seemed skeptical, and if cancer was actually 100 percent cured, people would make a big deal.

 

[Arctarus'sCookie]

So no one is going to be a millionaire for curing cancer? Well at least we have a cure.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

There was a thread about this a week or so back and I'll say the same thing here as I said there: My best friend is spinning in his grave.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

This was mentioned last week I think. And then someone said it was old news.

Oh sorry, I didn't search bar because I was in a such a rage lol. Still, I want people to know about it so forgive me!

 

[Thaluikhain]

This was mentioned last week I think. And then someone said it was old news.

More than once last week, and it first came out a number of years ago.

It also fails to hold up to any scrutiny whatsoever. Amongst other things, it's easy to complain about "the medical industry" or "the media" doing something dodgy, which they do, but for this to be true, every medical research industry, pharmaceutical company and news outlet in the entire world would have had to have formed a cabal to keep this under wraps, when any one of them could make a massive profit being the only one to take advantage of this.

If we're going to have a batshit crazy conspiracy theory, can we at least have a fun one? Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite, the product of an incestuous breeding program to create the next generation of celebrities [footnote]My favourite conspiracy, and yes, people believe this[/footnote] and/or tool of the Illuminati to aid them in creating Project Monarch sex slaves as part of the new world order. Not much crazier, but much more fun.

 

[Danzaivar]

Yeah...the NHS is a not-for-profit organisation that covers everyone in the UK. They're cutting spending to meet targets. If they could gut oncology with something like this, they'd do it.

So I'm inclined to think fake. (protip: not everything is solely governed by profit, america is only ~5% of the world you know!)

 

[Keava]

Because fancy titles make things true... if only.

If you would read the actual DCA reports rather than believing that piece of subpar journalism you would know that the whole cure was tested merely on 5 human patients, showing positive results on stopping the tumor growth or shrinking it in some cases, higher dosage of the drug showed side effects including nerve malfunction... In short - there is no guarantee the thing works and needs a larger medical trails to come to any conclusion, it's merely a small first step in trying to find a cure through the aspects of cell metabolism.

 

[GodofCider]

What has been stated: Cancer is cured, no one cares.

What it actually says: A treatment that has had five human test subjects shows that it may be beneficial in some forms of cancer treatment; primarily in helping pre-existing treatment methods. However in some types of cancer it has been shown to have a negative impact; actually making it more difficult to kill.

 

[brunothepig]

I'll add one more comment to the "said last week" crowd. I'll also point out that this is very old, very preliminary research. This isn't a conspiracy, companies aren't trying to shut it down or anything, there is a multitude of testing that needs to be done before this could be approved etc.
Plus, if it had gone anywhere there'd be something said about it. I don't know what, but some kinda of report on the big bad pharmaceutical's holding it back or something. The way I see it, the research's promise is exaggerated, and was possibly further studied, and led nowhere.
Of course, if it's a case of us simply not having the knowledge or technology for the discoveries of this to come to fruition, maybe it'll crop up again somewhere.
EDIT: Must have deleted this paragraph, not sure how.
The original research was nowhere near a cure. It was, the treatment shows promising results in mice, and we did preliminary testing on five people, all with one specific type of cancer, which did show results. Hell, it doesn't confirm that even one was cured, just that some tumours shrunk, some stopped growing. After some months of showing no results, so it's not exactly fast acting either.

 

[Sun Flash]

Yep, there was a thread almost identical to this last week, raging OP and everything. If it was a cure then yeah, I'd be P.O'd too, but it isn't because if it was, the media would be losing their collective shit over it (and rightly so).

Plus I don't know if it is the writer of the article linked, but basic high school biology teaches you that mitochodria do not work like that. And the research looks to be very basic, so no cure has been found as such, they're just looking at a new way to tackle it and still havily in the experimentation stages.

And, the research was under taken in Canada? I'm sure they have some form of free at point of use health care, so making money doesn't really come into it (unlike what happens in the US, I presume), seeing as they are more concerned with keeping people out of hospital as cheaply as possible, every country with free health care would be jumping all over this. It just doesn't add up.


Also, the first comment is from 4 years ago, so yeah, it looks as if it is a troll article that has came and went.

That seems like a lot of words for me, so sorry 'bout that.

 

[DirtyMagic]

I'll add one more comment to the "said last week" crowd. I'll also point out that this is very old, very preliminary research. This isn't a conspiracy, companies aren't trying to shut it down or anything, there is a multitude of testing that needs to be done before this could be approved etc.
Plus, if it had gone anywhere there'd be something said about it. I don't know what, but some kinda of report on the big bad pharmaceutical's holding it back or something. The way I see it, the research's promise is exaggerated, and was possibly further studied, and led nowhere.
Of course, if it's a case of us simply not having the knowledge or technology for the discoveries of this to come to fruition, maybe it'll crop up again somewhere.

This, this, a thousand times this.
Can we now let the topic rest please?

It's basically really, REALLY shallow hope. And a very shaky article at best.
If it truly was THE cure, the world had gone bananas by now.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Cancer is cured, no one cares.

Tell this to the people who still die of cancer every day. Don't believe me? Try visiting a hospital.

Hopefully this small first step will lead to something. But don't try to go around saying cancer is cured. It's a rather silly thing to do, and it insults people who are dieing.

That was the name of the article, I'm not trying to insult anyone.