WATCH: Vice Special Report: Killing Cancer

My husband has been fighting cancer for years. He is stage four and recently told two months and to call Hospice which we have done but we just watched this and he is going to contact them. It’s a last ditch effort but he’s tough as nails and I have his back.

I hope that he will be eligible to try this.

Think positive for us! We’ll let you know what we find.

Outstanding Ad. Thank you for posting this amazing video. What a joy to see people who were surely facing certain death, recover and be able to live normal lives for many more years to come.

What would the anti-science morons think of this? Would they possibly be more sympathetic to the field of scientific research? Would they take advantage of such incredible new treatments when it is one of them or one of their loved ones who has to stare death in the face? I’m betting that many of them would.

There is a very likely possibility that one day, in the next decade, that I will develop liver cancer. I have already accepted this possibility and am OK with it, but if there is a successful treatment that may very well be available in the next few years, I certainly would want to have it.

Sometimes science just blows me away. There are some amazingly smart and dedicated people in this world. It’s not all doom and gloom and hatred.

Thanks again for posting this.

Ad, I too have lost family and close friends to cancer. Hope sprongs eternal for a cure for all cancers and other dreaded deseases.
Thanks for the good news. I bet Bito and KQ are looking down and smiling because we are remembering them. They were so good to all of us as we came to the Planet and welcoming. I have a loved one now who suffers from “C”.

Although I’m only an occasional visitor, I’m very sorry to hear about KQuark. At my age, I understand that we are mortal, but cancer (with it’s debilitating treatment before the end) is not a nice way to go. I’d prefer a massive stroke.

As I approached my MS degree in Physics, decades ago, I was hired by the University Medical School Biochemistry Department even before the degree was finalized. Odd, how many openings an MS in Physics offers. I took the job (presumably to oversee a ‘molecular physics’ lab in the near future), however, not being a ‘Doctor’, I was put ‘under’ an older, tenured professor.

My ‘boss’ was a wonderful man. He was a protein chemist. Within a week or two, I attended a ‘journal club’ and asked such penetrating questions of a graduate student of the Department Chair, pointing (without actually ‘pointing’) to the logical flaws in the thesis she was proposing, that my boss called me into his office. He let me know that I was absolutely correct, however none of the Department members had the guts to point out those flaws. Apparently, we were ruled by a ‘little Hitler.

My boss and I struck a harmonious chord. He valued basic research and encouraged and gently guided his graduate students and post-docs. I became very much interested in protein chemistry, and my boss entrusted me with the job of making sure the work of several of his graduate students was ‘up to snuff’. I worked with the students, made sure their experimental design was rigorous, and helped them reduce and present the data.

Eventually, I developed a love for teaching, and left my nest (after becoming certified, with most courses at the graduate level) to teach in High School. However, during my stint at the Med School, I learned a bit about funding.

First, in those days, most research was publicly funded (NSF, etc.) However, there were a few ‘New Turks’ who learned to tap drug companies for grants. They were valued by our ‘Hitler’ because they brought in extra revenue to the Department. However, the ‘research’ that generated these funds often involved ‘proving’ that the patented drugs of the grantor had some ‘activity’. By ‘activity’, I mean that the drug had some potential to ‘manage’ a disease, not cure it.

The primary objective of a drug company is to make money. They can do this by treating the symptoms of a disease, but not by curing it. To put drug companies in charge of ‘medical research’ simply guarantees a sick populace dependent upon their products.

Cancer cells lose control. They forget how to control their replication rate, and forget how to become cells like the tissue that spawned them. The ‘cure for cancer’ lies in understanding the chemical/molecular reasons for this loss of control, not in the search for ‘active’ drugs. With today’s medical research now in the hands of drug company grants, the necessary basic research will not happen in our country except by accident.

I hope the positive news given in this article is a boon to us and our neighbors. In our current society, I fear it will not benefit most of the people. I mourn for KQuark. He did what he could, and that makes him a great citizen. Please let his family know that his contributions were appreciated far beyond the circle of those who knew him in person.

Thank you Adlib for posting this, as you probably remember, Pepe and I are advocates in this field.