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HarkARC t1_j6suphu wrote

This could be great news! Pancreatic cancer is a particularly nasty disease, with a roughly 95% fatality rate.

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[deleted] t1_j6tqbkb wrote

Yep, my Grandad died 7 weeks after being diagnosed

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worstregards t1_j6wfq1r wrote

Really sorry for your loss. For my grandmother it was less than a month…

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RealPrinceJay t1_j6u41hx wrote

I feel like I keep hearing about these ways to beat cancer for years and years, but where do they go? Are they stuck in trial for decades?

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Mrischief t1_j6uayiu wrote

It depends, showing promise in mice / or culture is one step. The next steps are harder, so yeeeeay for base science, but dont let it fool you to think it will be ready in a year (if memory serves, 5-10 years is the norm for drugs)

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SuperiorOnions t1_j6uhv8e wrote

If humans had mice as pets the way we do dogs, we could do some wild stuff with all this technology

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Mrischief t1_j6uzxq7 wrote

To be fair, the way we use experimental animals (and their service) is to have human like tissue with “faults” in them to get cancers etc. But for sure there would be some darn survivable mice and rats arouns

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ProtoplanetaryNebula t1_j6wi5pj wrote

It's a bit like planting trees. The ones you plant today will be mature in 10-20 years (just as an example, I know there are fast growing trees), the more you keep planting the more trees there will be around.

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Roseking t1_j6uoss9 wrote

One thing to keep in mind is that treatment for a lot has gotten better.

My mom just finished chemo for breast cancer and they talked to her a lot about how much better treatment is in a lot of cases than just 10 years ago.

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shimmeringships t1_j6vhjzz wrote

Also, there are 100s of types of cancers, and many have subtypes. Even if we find one “cure” it will only work in a small percentage of cancer patients.

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RealPrinceJay t1_j6vjzj6 wrote

Fuck cancer man, some bullshit. Why couldn’t it be simple

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LaziestScreenName t1_j6w28fh wrote

Many small biotech companies fall prey to predatory powers on the stock market and are basically shorted into oblivion. Which in turn makes it hard for said company to get funding from the appearance of not performing well as a good return. Then the company goes down and research halts and is dead in the water. Not the sole reason but one of them.

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Strappedkaos t1_j6vey7y wrote

mRNA is unlocking things so quickly...

Almost like they needed a way to get it to be accepted for the future biotech races.

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UnacceptableOrgasm t1_j6wv65l wrote

Are you saying that you think a shadowy cabal created and unleashed a global pandemic resulting in many millions of deaths in order to shift public opinion in a positive direction in regards to the underlying technology of their vaccines?

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daretoredd t1_j6vn9c2 wrote

Cool, another treatment no one can afford, unless you're rich that is!

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ZekerPixels t1_j6urh9i wrote

Wasn't the thing from Resident Evil called the T-virus which modified the cells. Similar name, but those side effects are a bit worrying.

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