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Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane

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Re: Light-induced whole-molecule vibration can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane

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Post by mcint »

Austizzle wrote: post #2

The real question is always "but how good is it at killing non-cancer cells?" A bullet fired from a gun would be great at killing cancer cells too. Although in this case it seems like it's just an alternative to surgery, rather than a cancer cure? Just a way of vibrating cells in a certain location to death? Does anybody who actually understands medicine know if this is a great breakthrough or not?

Even if this just becomes chemotherapy but locally activated by near-infrared light, that would be great.

It means, at worst, don't go outside or be in bright sun-lit spaces, but also, we can shine a flashlight on where the cancer is to kill it. Even if it weren't very selective (which could be adjusted with other targeting molecules), light-trigged theraputics are easy to understand the propagation of.

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Post by kulahan »

foobiekr wrote: post #35
kulahan wrote: post #31

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Preventing cancer seems like a fool's based on my understanding of the disease. You have cancerous cells in your body every single day. Your immune system kills them all off. It's like saying you want to prevent all bacteria from entering your body. It's just not realistic (at least, not right now).

Replying to a post noting a 90% reduction in cancer thanks to the HPV vaccine with "preventing cancer seems like a fool's errand" is pretty amazing. Would you care to expand on that?

HPV is a carrier disease for one strain of cancer. Cancer is a type of disease - as said elsewhere, it's like saying "I found a cure for virus".

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Post by tyingq »

kulahan wrote: post #31
dghughes wrote: post #11

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Or better yet find out how to prevent cancers since it's better to not be sick than to treat you once you are sick. Things like the HPV vaccine which in my province saw a 90% drop in just a few years. I think everyone should get it no questions asked which maybe they don't anymore? The Hepatitis B vaccine too since having the disease is a cause of liver cancer. But if all else fails it's also good to have a tools to…

Preventing cancer seems like a fool's based on my understanding of the disease. You have cancerous cells in your body every single day. Your immune system kills them all off. It's like saying you want to prevent all bacteria from entering your body. It's just not realistic (at least, not right now).

He gave a couple of examples. Another one is aggressively treating GERD so that it doesn't devolve into various conditions that lead to stomach or esophageal cancer. It's possible something like this could treat pre-cancerous things too, like Barrett’s esophagus.

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Post by Ralfp »

onetimeuse92304 wrote: post #14
benjijay wrote: post #7

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I am not a biologist but I've known a few in my time; It is highly unlikely there will ever be a singular "cure for cancer" as cancer is a bit of a blanket term given to multiple diseases, however this is a seemingly reasonably good breakthrough in treatment - being able to destroy cancerous cells without exposing the patient to further harm via targeted radiation or harsh chemo drugs (basically targeted poisoning) f…

I am of more positive thinking here. I think our problems with cancer are due to misunderstanding what cancer is in the first place. Here, Thomas Seyfried can explain this much better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusaU2taxow I think once we know where cancer comes from we can be much more effective at preventing it in the first place (proper diet) and treating it after the fact. With the current…

And here is counter-response from David Gorski:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-cancer-...

TL;DR we are researching metabolism of cancer but findings so far are not even close to validity the claims that Seyfried makes.

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