Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
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#2This sounds amazing, and anything that go towards curing cancer is fantastic.
I do hope this means that we don’t give up trying to reduce pollution though, that it won’t sap the resolve for clean air.
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#4This sounds amazing, and anything that go towards curing cancer is fantastic. I do hope this means that we don’t give up trying to reduce pollution though, that it won’t sap the resolve for clean air.
It's about prevention, and the way from observation that cancers need a trigger to actual workable preventatives is long and fraught with failure.
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#5Proponents of fasting will love this, since the idea is that not eating for a while will cause the body to scavenge for this old / damaged cell material.
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#6"The idea of taking a cancer-blocking pill if you live in a heavily polluted area is not completely fanciful. " - Prof Charles Swanton
Really interesting and, obviously major news in the battle against cancer.
In terms of research funding; wonder if it will lead to industries linked with cancer, e.g. tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicles ... , quietly starting to fund prophylactic R&D as well?
Re: Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
#7"The idea of taking a cancer-blocking pill if you live in a heavily polluted area is not completely fanciful. " - Prof Charles Swanton Really interesting and, obviously major news in the battle against cancer. In terms of research funding; wonder if it will lead to industries linked with cancer, e.g. tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicles ... , quietly starting to fund prophylactic R&D as well?
Has a dystopian ring to it, "we don't need to clear up the nuclear waste, just take your thyroid pills and everything will be fine"
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#8Proponents of fasting will love this, since the idea is that not eating for a while will cause the body to scavenge for this old / damaged cell material.
And is that nonsense or is there evidence that backs it up?
Re: Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
#9Proponents of fasting will love this, since the idea is that not eating for a while will cause the body to scavenge for this old / damaged cell material.
And is that nonsense or is there evidence that backs it up?
FYI: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/fasting...
But as to the mechanism... not a scooby.
Re: Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
#10"The idea of taking a cancer-blocking pill if you live in a heavily polluted area is not completely fanciful. " - Prof Charles Swanton Really interesting and, obviously major news in the battle against cancer. In terms of research funding; wonder if it will lead to industries linked with cancer, e.g. tobacco, alcohol, motor vehicles ... , quietly starting to fund prophylactic R&D as well?
Has a dystopian ring to it, "we don't need to clear up the nuclear waste, just take your thyroid pills and everything will be fine"
Live in the pod, eat the 3-headed radioactive bugs ...