End of Cancer?

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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I really hope that this is legit. I hate the fact that people could be eating right and exercising etc., only to have cancer come around and take their life. It's not fair. Let self-inflicting diseases rule the earth. Wanna whore around? HIV for you. Wanna eat yourself to death? Diabetes and limb loss for you.

HIV isn't fair all the time either. Look at the hundreds of thousands of babies born with HIV because their mother passed it to them. Or the person who is raped or forced into prostitution and HIV is passed to them.

[ODogg]

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yeah but scooby does have a point, most of the time those are behavior based diseases...

[Brankles]

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Man, this is wild. Cancer treatments are already ridiculously expensive, so if this is expensive it's not really a big deal. Naturally, people will pay anything to survive.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

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yeah but scooby does have a point, most of the time those are behavior based diseases...

Not all cancer but some cancer is also behavior based.

I just don't think it's fair to say lets fight cancer but **** AIDS or anything else because it's your fault you got it which isn't the case all the time, and cancer to a lesser extent is the same way.

[Money99]

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Man, this is wild. Cancer treatments are already ridiculously expensive, so if this is expensive it's not really a big deal. Naturally, people will pay anything to survive.

And hopefully this procedure makes some national news and donations can be made towards it.
I'll be looking into that.

[Sting]

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If this is legit then why am I just now hearing about this on a video game message board? I don't live under a rock.

[BrianFifaFan]

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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.

He'll know in a month where he stands. He has 2 more chemos and then a scan. I'm supposed to go back to work either the 12th or 19th of April. If I go back the 19th, I'm gonna go with him for his third treatment. He'll have a scan about a week after that. If the tumor has shrunk, they'll continue chemo until they can operate. If it hasn't it's miracle time. He's classified 3b right now, I step from Stage4, which means metastisized. Then his changes become far less of beating this. I'm 43 and have known 2 people who died from cancer in my age group. One from Lung, they found it at stage4, it was already too late. Another friend died of Melanoma, at 43. It went into his brain and everything. Problem was they never thought about him having that, he was black. You just never know. 1 you could call lifestyle based, but the others are just mutations....

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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IF, and it's a big IF, this materializes into anything, then they'll have to make it available to everyone (not just the Bill Gates of the world) based on----

Note: This is not political propaganda...just stating truth. Don't need another infraction.

[ODogg]

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Gamec0ck, you don't know that and yes that is political. You don't even want me to get into it with you because we'll both get infractions.

[Vast]

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I dont have much hope of this getting out to the general public.

As awesome as it is, its bad for business. They'll figure out a way to stop it.

What possible side-effect could this have? In a perfect world they'd bring it out right now.
I mean, losing your hair and practically killing you is the worst side effects i can think of, but thats the best we have to offer?

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Gamec0ck, you don't know that and yes that is political. You don't even want me to get into it with you because we'll both get infractions.

No need, my man. No need.

[ODogg]

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Vast - I've already stated the side effects, the fact that the technology can go where they don't want it to go. You're dealing with tiny robots inside of people. There are all kinds of issues there. But yeah it should be about 1,000,000 times better than chemo.

[BrianFifaFan]

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Gamec0ck, you don't know that and yes that is political. You don't even want me to get into it with you because we'll both get infractions.

Come on, please don't turn this into that! Politics aside, for hopefully a long minute, I PRAY that something like this could save my friends life. I don't care who pays for it or has to fast-track approval of it. Have you read anything I've written? Real persons every day die of cancer and something like this could help, both my friend and others tremendously. We all have a death at the end of our road, but would like to have my friend for many more years. This isn't some type of philosophical debate. We've met in the flesh, so I'm talking to a person I've shared Mickey D's with, not some nameless screen name. Please don't take this thread that way, please....

[ODogg]

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Brian - I think you may have quoted the wrong person beacuse I wasn't the one who posted a post that began down that road. But yeah I replied and called him on it because it really irks me that people on here think they can make these little political digs and hide behind nonsense afterwards by saying they won't go there. His entire post was political while at the same time saying it wasn't. Brian, I'll agree with you - take that junk elsewhere, especially in this thread.

[ex carrabba fan]

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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.

I was just going to say, I wonder what life would be like with no cancer and/or HIV/AIDS.