End of Cancer?

[jetercanoturn2]

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This is what the world needs, "Good News" I hope to God that this is real, too many good people have died from cancer, and It's something that should be eliminated pronto.

[Phobia]

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Yeah, the first chemo treatment was pretty bad for him. He ended up getting a GI blockage and now he's gonna lose his hair in a few days. This is what he has: Pleomorphic Rhabdomyosarcoma. It's extremely rare in adults and particularly deadly. His family is taking it pretty hard and isn't an effective support system with all the chemo stuff. I'm laid off from GM still, so I want to be with him through this, as much as I can. I know right now he'd try anything, even up to this. People who are out of traditional options will try just about anything.

The tumor located in his pelvis along the bone and there's no room for what they call "resection." They have to have a clean margin outside of the tumor to ensure they don't cut the tumor. It just doesn't exist right now. So they are, like you said, just about killing him, to try and shrink the cancer to be able to try and take it out. I've been educating myself since I chosen to join in as a caregiver, and pretty much everything I've read is, no surgery, almost a guarantee of less than a year with it metastisizing rapidly throughout the body. So stuff like this is hope, in a pretty much hopeless situation. Sometimes people like him get to be test subjects, because they are the worst cases and will let you do whatever to try and save their lives. He's already said his doctors have prepared him that he has a 91% chance that the chemo won't work and he'll have it spread. Like I told him, we have 9% to work with, I'm gonna show him this. Maybe we've got a few more % to play with...

Damn Brian that is really sad. I wish the best for your buddy. Hope everything plays out for the better.

[BrianFifaFan]

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Damn Brian that is really sad. I wish the best for your buddy. Hope everything plays out for the better.

Yeah, I found out Sunday morning, I spent a whole lot of the day crying. When I was in my early 20's we were inseperable. We each kinda grew apart in the early 2000's as our lives evolved. I didn't even know where he was anymore. He found me on Facebook Sunday and I found out about this. Guy has been like a brother to me for 25 years. It's really hard, but, regardless how this all ends, I'm gonna be with him for the rest of the time we're given together. It's really made me think about how much family and friends matter. You just never know when your life is gonna change dramatically.

[mikko1995]

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I'm gonna show this to a friend. Next week we are going up to the University of Michigan Cancer Treatment Center. He was just diagnosed with a very nasty smooth-muscle sarcoma that is in an inoperable place. I'm taking him for his second chemo round, it's a cocktail of 4 chemo medicines, including one known as "the Red Devil." Maybe he could become a test subject. If the Chemo doesn't work, his prognosis is really poor. Even if it does shrink enough to operate, there are no cases where the person has survived over 5 years. It almost always comes back. He's 45 years old with a 9 year old and a 4 year old. This could be the type of miracle he needs. Needless to say, it's not a happy time for any of us right now. I've known him for 25 years and he was the closest thing I have to a brother on this Earth. This post really means the world to me! Thanks...

Man that really sucks. I hope he survives, I mean he is only 45. And I know it is hard to see a close friend or a relative having a cancer. My granddad survived two cancers, but third was too much for him, it was really hard to see him in that kind of shape. He was always happy, but when my family visited him two days before he died he looked really tired and the doctors couldn't do anything to help him. And he was very skinny he was 5-10 tall but he was only 114 pounds heavy. He died a little over two years ago and it wasn't easy to understand. If I remeber right he died in Good Friday so everyone had a day off. It wasn't the best free day in my life. But still best wishes to you an dyour friend and to his family, stay strong and never quit believing his changes to survive.

[BrianFifaFan]

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Thanks for the wishes and support, guys. I'm not really one to air my problems like that, but this struck a nerve. What's funny is that he's helping my spirits with his courage. He went through his time of "why?" and he's ready to fight. I know he's ready to fight and needs me there for him, so I'm ready to go and be whatever he needs me to be. They always say that the best friends are the ones you can go though hell or high water with. I'm gonna do this for my friend/brother. I know he would do the same for me. I just pray this is real. I want him to have every chance to make it, I don't want to lose my friend....

[ODogg]

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hova, but self replication is different when applied to microscopic computers, completely different. there is no self awareness there to quit replicating. if you flip that switch and there is no way to turn it off it very well could mean the end of the world. because nanobots could (from the show I watched anyways) go from humans to animals, to plant life, to anything, and in the science show I was watching it said basically the planet would end up covered in a blackish-grey goo of nothingness.

i know, pretty far off but still, something bad no doubt would happen if we created something computerized, self replicating and no way to control it.

[DickDalewood]

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They thought they found the cure in "I Am Legend" too...

Just sayin'.

[tsalbysp]

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One side effect of a cure for cancer: Larger population.

It's a catch-22, to be honest with you. You cure cancer, you save lives. You cure cancer, you allow for more people to be alive on the planet at once, consuming resources at a faster rate, less resources to go around, more conflict, more deaths, lifespan of the Earth reduced, and so on and so forth.

[the_future420]

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Man I really hope something comes off this. I just found out last night that a girl I dated a couple years back died last month from colon cancer and she was only 24. Although thats the first person I really knew to die of it, Ive seen the effects of chemo on people.

[z Revis]

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This is amazing. I can only hope this works out.

[J-Unit40]

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The cure for cancer won't happen anytime soon. Why? $$$$$$$

[ODogg]

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That's what that article doesn't mention, those nanobots are incredibly expensive to build. Until they can figure out a way to have them self replicate then this "cure" won't be available to anyone but Bill Gates and those like him.

[Money99]

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That's what that article doesn't mention, those nanobots are incredibly expensive to build. Until they can figure out a way to have them self replicate then this "cure" won't be available to anyone but Bill Gates and those like him.

But like anything else in life, the more they learn and tinker the cheaper things can get.
Just look at home PC's. At one time, nobody on this planet thought that every household could own one.

Brian, I hope your friend gets some good news soon. And you never know, he could qualify for this experimental cure.
I'd love to come on here one day and find out your buddy is 100% cancer free from something as miraculous as this.

[roadman]

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Does this need to be approved by the FDA or is it already approved?

[ODogg]

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Oh yeah, it will definitely get cheaper when they program the nanobots to self-replicate. Until then though it will remain insanely expensive.