Cancer killer virus

[Duster]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/19/061019102114.ms2asupj.html

When injected into cancerous tumors, the virus quickly multiplies in the cancer cells and kills them, the team said.

The new adenovirus can target only cancer cells and does not harm normal cells, the team said.

It looks like we are getting close to maybe stop this killer

 

[Jon855]

Good and if this is surely successful, make them cheap damn it...

 

[Duster]

looks like i am slow

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/22/cancer.virus/index.html

 

[zim01]

That's great news

 

[iSkylla]

That's amazing. I gave the article to all my "peeps"

Fold On!

 

[Bill Clo]

Fricking awesome. Too bad they didn't develop it soon enough to save my father-in-law; he fought skin cancer for 2 years and died a month ago (on 9-11)...

 

[iSkylla]

Sorry to hear that. Just keep folding!

 

[Fenris_Ulf]

Also can be found here:

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/20..._v.php?utm_source=seedmag-main&utm_medium=rss

 

[MC FLMJIG]

Hmmm interesting.

I wonder what effect it had on the rest of the body. What happens after cancer is "gone"?

 

[Viper87227]

Based on the fact that it is a rapidly multiplying virus, could this almost be categorized as a cancer that cures cancer? I don't know 100% what makes a cancer a cancer, but is it not something to the tune of a virus that multiplies out of control attacking your body? Well, if a virus is multiplying out of control (or is there some control?) and attacking instead cancer cells, by definition, could it not still be considered a cancer?

 

[iSkylla]

A cancer is only considered a cancer if the cells multiply ontop of each other. I don't believe that it is a cancer only if they multiply rapidly. That is just a virus.

 

[Jon855]

What makes a cancer -

"When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. Cancer cells avoid apoptosis and continue to multiply in an unregulated manner"
See figure - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Normal_cancer_cell_division_from_NIH.png

"Origins of cancer

Cell division or cell proliferation is a physiological process that occurs in almost all tissues and under many circumstances. Normally the balance between proliferation and programmed cell death is tightly regulated to ensure the integrity of organs and tissues. Mutations in DNA that lead to cancer disrupt these orderly processes.

The uncontrolled and often rapid proliferation of cells can lead to either a benign tumor or a malignant tumor (cancer). Benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body or invade other tissues, and they are rarely a threat to life unless they extrinsically compress vital structures. Malignant tumors can invade other organs, spread to distant locations (metastasize) and become life-threatening."

The above were snippets from Wikipedia.org - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer