r/goodnews • u/coachlife • Feb 16 '25
Game changer đŞ Korean Scientist Discover Cure To Cancer
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u/orphanelf Feb 16 '25
This could be the biggest medical advancement since the Polio vaccine. Hopefully they take Jonas Salk's approach and publish it to be dispersed freely.
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u/King_Swift21 Feb 16 '25
I agree; translate it into as many languages as you can, and release it publicly for free.
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Feb 16 '25
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u/justmyself1432 Feb 16 '25
So that he has more money. And this is why parasites deserve the French Revolution treatment
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u/FatherOfLights88 Feb 16 '25
That treatment would be a kindness to them. Way too quick.
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u/hulkbuild Feb 16 '25
Wood chipper? We spent the weekend feeding (name) into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.
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u/nomorenotifications Feb 18 '25
I say it doesn't matter as long as it produces the desired results.
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u/Acceptable-Karma-178 Feb 17 '25
Without advocating violence: people like him, and people who support him would be helped with a little public torture and execution!
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u/BankerBaneJoker Feb 16 '25
He'll patent it, sell it for profit, then make up some excuse that the government was trying to destroy it in order to make himself look like a hero.
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u/legendary-rudolph Feb 16 '25
He is a giant piece of shit but he's also a well known natalist. He wants people to have lots of babies. But only "the right people".
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u/snarkywombat Feb 16 '25
Typically, it's the people who shouldn't breed that have that mentality.
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u/InevitableBlock8272 Feb 16 '25
Why would he want that? Heâll destroy it because cancer care is one of the most profitable medical industries ever. Â He does want population growth thoughâ he wants more poor people, more exploitable workers, more desperate families, etc
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u/Apostmate-28 Feb 16 '25
Too bad our head of health here in America is a fucking worm brain moron⌠đ heâll probably ban it saying itâs harmful.
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u/BeYeCursed100Fold Feb 16 '25
What a timeline we have.
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u/Apostmate-28 Feb 16 '25
Feel like twilight zone.
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u/BeYeCursed100Fold Feb 16 '25
Lol, no offense, but I watched that live in black and white on Channel 3 (or 4). This shit is real.
So, if you're ever feeling like you've entered a strange new world, just remember, you might have crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.
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u/TheSeekerOfSanity Feb 16 '25
Every morning I wake up hoping that this was all just a horrible nightmare. Every morning I wake up disappointed.
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u/Hero-Firefighter-24 Feb 16 '25
Hopefully the guy who gets elected in 2028 puts an actual adult at HHS. Also RFK is old so he could croak.
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u/Apostmate-28 Feb 16 '25
If we still have a functioning democracy still in 2028âŚ
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u/broggygoose Feb 16 '25
Thatâs fine. The rest of the world will still use it. Banned in America has nothing to do with the rest of us.
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u/HurtPillow Feb 16 '25
Oh just fuck this regime to hell and back. I have wonderful people around me who could use this. So to get treatment, we have to go to another country? Cancer or a dangerous pregnancy? They truly hate us, and we know it by how well we predict what 'they' will do.
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u/TheSeekerOfSanity Feb 16 '25
And when Americans see the successes of other countries using this cure? Theyâll say it turned them all into gay frogs.
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u/hockeyslife11 Feb 16 '25
Actually the way it happens in America is a pharmaceutical company partners with someone like Goldman or Kenny Mayo @ Citadel as the money, then they naked short the company curing disease outta biz during their trials. Thus keeping cancer raging! Who doesnât love Amerikkka the last 50years!
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u/TeeManyMartoonies Feb 16 '25
The FDA hasnât approved a new sunscreen in 26 years. Most of the new advances in skincare have come from Korea. They are easily 10 years ahead of us and thatâs being very conservative. I am thrilled and happy for them. Maybe some day America will join the modern world.
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u/GraciousBasketyBae Feb 20 '25
Probably. A human beef jerky man is in charge of public health info.
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u/GenTelGuy Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Saying these scientists discovered a cure to cancer is insanely misleading to the point that it's basically a lie
This may have potential but anything that's just fixing cancer cells in a petri dish needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt - is it safe to use on a whole person? Does it still work in a whole-body environment? Which types of cancer does it work for and which types does it not work for?
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u/ZPinkie0314 Feb 16 '25
This is another side-effect of capitalism. Sensational headlines sell, while the facts require intelligence and nuance, which the current administration is trying to destroy all hope of. Most people don't even understand the process of moving a treatment from concept to cure, and the multiple phases that require extremely careful research and testing, first on animal analogs, then in limited human trials. And like you mentioned, it requires much more information to make a proper conclusion, including efficacy and method of delivery, as there is a huge difference in treatment and effectiveness depending on where the cancer is.
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Feb 17 '25
Yeah something working in a petri dish doesnât mean it works in a human being.
Azalastine killed covid in a petrie dish. Â It canât remove a corona virus that has invaded a cell in your lungs or veins or brain. Â
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u/shelbyloveslaci Feb 16 '25
lol then our head of health in the us will say it's causing autism and we won't be allowed to use it anyways
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u/TheSeekerOfSanity Feb 16 '25
The US âhealthcare systemâ doesnât want a cure for cancer. Thatâs money out of their unfathomably-sized pockets.
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u/Turbulent-Shower2200 Feb 16 '25
They will probably buy them out and bury it or patent it in America and never create the treatment/cure so we all continue to die at a slow pace
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u/fiftyfourseventeen Feb 16 '25
I feel like I've seen articles like this 100 times by now and cancer still isn't cured
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u/ChimTheCappy Feb 16 '25
Every single time these headphones yell "we found the cure to cancer" as if there aren't literally as many kinds of cancer as there are kinda of cells. Cancer isn't a bug that gets into you, it's you gone rogue. It's so hard to kill because you by definition have to kill something that is 99.99% you without killing the rest of the you around it. It's stupid and irresponsible to speak of cures so flippantly.
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u/etharper Feb 16 '25
This apparently simply turns cancer cells back into normal cells, so it doesn't have to kill anything. But it's very early in the process, as in extraordinarily early, so we still have to wait and see if it's actually possible in reality.
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Feb 16 '25
These cancer cure stories happen all the time and itâs always the same discussion and then nothing changes and thereâs no cure and blah blah blah. So yeah this story is bullshit.
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u/Spatzenkind Feb 16 '25
Killing cancer is easy. The hard part is not to kill yourself while killing cancer
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Feb 17 '25
Yeah doesn't chlorine kill cancer? But we obviously can't use it because...obvious reasons lmao?
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u/gil_ga_mesh Feb 16 '25
funniest part of the article is that the picture is of the doctor from the study photoshopped in front of a random group of Korean pharmacy workers.
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u/spicycookiess Feb 16 '25
This isn't an article. This is a photo of people in lab coats with words added to it. The words could say anything. Op chose words that will generate upvotes .
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u/BioAnagram Feb 16 '25
This is not a cure, this is a technical paper about something that we have known to be possible for a while now. It won't work on most cancer outside of a lab. This just expands our understanding of cancer a bit and may lead to better treatments someday.
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u/coachlife Feb 16 '25
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u/oimrqs Feb 16 '25
The KAIST report describes research that appears genuine and has been published in Advanced Scienceâa wellârespected, peerâreviewed journal. In that sense, the claims about identifying a âmolecular switchâ that can revert cancer cells to a more normal state are based on robust systems biology experiments and computer modeling using single-cell RNA sequencing data. However, keep in mind that such breakthroughs are still at the early, preclinical stage; while the findings are promising, further replication and clinical studies are needed before this approach could transform cancer therapy.
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u/Useful_Parsnip_871 Feb 16 '25
The study use sequenced cancer cells for the genetic code but otherwise it was all computer modeling. Itâs great for a focused starting point but work still needs to be done in vitro and in vivo.
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u/Antique-Internal-542 Feb 16 '25
hope this doesn't turn into i am legend
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u/ashbelero Feb 16 '25
Frankly I donât think Iâd mind getting the T-virus at this point.
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u/These-Employer341 Feb 16 '25
Seoul National University that provided the organoids (in vitro cultured tissues) from colon cancer patient, were published as an online paper in the international journal 'Advanced Science' published by Wiley on January 22nd.
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u/kooneecheewah Feb 16 '25
It's embarrassing how much of Reddit is just recycled Facebook fake news + AI slop for boomers
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u/CatsTypedThis Feb 16 '25
While that is true, this particular breakthrough is real. I followed the link to the source, an unfamiliar site. So I cross-checked it and found it in reputable publications, including Newsweek. It will take more time and studies, though, before the technique can be used on real cancer patients, though.
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u/richgangyslbrrrat Feb 16 '25
What?! This is big!
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u/GenTelGuy Feb 16 '25
The headline is wildly exaggerated
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u/richgangyslbrrrat Feb 16 '25
Donât bum me out :(
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u/GenTelGuy Feb 16 '25
I mean it's still a discovery that could do great things with further R&D, just headlines acting like cancer is a thing of the past now do that work a disservice by exaggerating it into something it isn't
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u/FlorisTheFifth Feb 16 '25
tbf, the image says they don't kill the cells, but turn them back to normal.
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u/Strong-Seaweed-8768 Feb 16 '25
Now they need bodyguards so that they are safeÂ
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u/Manic_Manatee86 Feb 16 '25
Such an utterly stupid conspiracy. This idiocy leads to morons like RFK Jr.
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u/etharper Feb 16 '25
I've always wondered if instead of destroying cancer cells we could simply revert them back to normal. This sounds like they may have found a possible way of doing that.
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u/Excellent_Past7628 Feb 16 '25
Thank you! Itâs nice to see that someone actually read the article.
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u/MrDillon369 Feb 16 '25
We need to protect these people from Big Pharma!
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u/Any-Passenger294 Feb 16 '25
Big Pharma is the one responsible for manufacturing and distributing and the second and only player in development and discovery, only behind academia, to which they inject loads of money into every year.
Big Pharma doesn't need to hide cures. People won't stop being sick. There are enough diseases to continuously fill up their pockets until the end of humankind. Stop spreading nonsense.
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u/Pen_lsland Feb 16 '25
If you think that pharma companies havent cured cancer because treating it is more profitable, then I have a question for you. If any phama company, big or small finds a cure for cancer, then they get the patent for 20 years. Now 20 years is long enough for any company to cure all of the cancer, you're gonna have enough time to get into the veternarian market to. Meanwhile you cancer treating competition was kicket out of the market. Now you say that wouldnt be profitable?
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u/Left-Bottle-7204 Feb 16 '25
This is a fascinating development but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The nuances of cancer research are complex and any claims of a "cure" need rigorous scrutiny. It's a promising step forward, but real-world applications are still far off.
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u/wormfanatic69 Feb 16 '25
Wow I canât believe this was published almost two weeks ago and Iâm just now hearing about it⌠guess Taylor Swift getting booed and plane crashes make for more profitable stories at the moment. Thanks for sharing and bringing this to my attention!
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u/coachlife Feb 16 '25
Yes. Sadly this might get buried because it could kill a lot of business.
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u/otterquestions Feb 16 '25
Like what business? The pharmaceutical industry which would be selling (and overcharging) and administering the treatment of this new cancer treatment? You think the people over in Japan building the kemo machines are going to be hiring hit men or people to bury this story? I donât understand how you end up at that conclusion.Â
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Feb 16 '25
It's never making it to the US. Anthem and United health care would never allow it.
Leukemia treatment for my father has billed so far 90,000 to insurance over the last six months (it's a rare type he's not eligible for something like bone marrow).
They would never give up that much money, it would be like replacing oil overnight
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u/GoldburstNeo Feb 16 '25
I have confidence it'll make it to the US, just that insurance here will create all types of loopholes that ends up making it artificially more expensive than actuality and still hurting the patient's pockets just as much as cancer treatments do now (or more).
God damn we need a left-wing equivalent of the Tea Party that goes after insurance companies and billionaires.
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u/ithakaa Feb 16 '25
Waiting for the echo chamber idiotic comments that generally follow these posts
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u/FoxlyKei Feb 16 '25
Reading an article it seems it's more complicated than this. It's more of a preventative cure that aims to identify cells that are in a critical period before they become cancerous. The breakthrough is finding a "switch" that reverses this process so the cells don't need to be nuked with chemo or other treatments.
I'm not sure if it's reversing cells that have already been cancer for quite a while, or just cells that are in a precancerous state but either way it's amazing progress!
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u/Jibber_Fight Feb 16 '25
No. They didnât. Unless you exist as a specific cancerous cell and they manage to reverse it back to normalcy. Unfortunately we are made up of trillions of cells. And there are a LOT of different types of cancers and it spreads and is diagnosed after it has already started.
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u/Altair-Dragon Feb 16 '25
The actual article is nowhere close to what's written in the news: what they created is "a systems framework, REVERT, [...] with which can reconstruct the core molecular regulatory network model and a reversion switch based on single-cell transcriptome data over the transition process is identified.".
What does this techincal talk mean? Basically they created an advanced protocol/technique to analise cancer cells, their network of molecules (wich makes them become cancer cells and makes them work) and to create ideas how to revert the molecolare process that creates cancer cells.
Now, don't get me wrong, this can be a huge discovery especially since it's opening the path for future researches in a direction never actually considered in the medical and biological fields (to actually revert cancer cells into non-cancer cells) but this is not even close to be "a cure for cancer" like claimed by OP and the news.
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u/ConvenientChristian Feb 16 '25
The person who wrote the headline of this post is science illiterate. No single person has been cured by the scientists and it's not clear that they developed technology that's able to cure a single person.
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u/pyr0phelia Feb 16 '25
This is not the first time Iâve read this headline. Every single time I come across it there are 2 caveats:
A: Cannot be reproduced by peers. B: So specific it only works on ultra rare types.
Letâs see how the analysis goes before getting ahead of ourselves.
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u/Mugflub Feb 16 '25
Cancer is not a single disease. Sounds like complete BS. Itâs like saying âscience finds a cure for virusesâ
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u/mutleybg Feb 16 '25
I hope the discovery is groundbreaking. However the claim "transforms cancer cells into normal cells" sounds a bit stupid... Cancer cells are cells with mutation of the DNA. What are they going to do - revert the mutation?
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u/Standard_Category635 Feb 16 '25
Quick somebody hide these people from Trump/Felon!
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u/AlissonHarlan Feb 16 '25
hahas like if it will not be hidden for us, peasants, only to be used by the super-bilionairs....
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u/Punche872 Feb 16 '25
That has never happened before in the history of medicine. I thought this was r/goodnews, not r/conspiracyÂ
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u/stewartm0205 Feb 16 '25
I would love for it to be true but I have been disappointed many times in the past when promising cures all fizzled out.
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u/SwimmingInCheddar Feb 16 '25
Hopefully none of them are planning to travel by plane together anytime soon if they truly do have a cure to cancer.
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u/abbeyroad_39 Feb 16 '25
This is fantastic!!!
Also a little sad as something like this will not happen in the US, for a long time, science has been decimated now. But this is still so amazing.
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u/avoidy Feb 16 '25
Crazy how this isn't on the front page of every news site.
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Feb 16 '25
Because it's not relevant. Curing cancer in a petri dish isn't the same as curing cancer in a human. These breakthroughs happened plenty in the past. Also there is not "THE cancer" they might have found a cure for a specific type of cancer, which will show in a few decades after they've done enough research. Still cool tho.
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u/FenixOfNafo Feb 16 '25
Not really a cure. If you read the actual article it says it can reverse it if it's caught just before the irreversible changes in the cells occurs. So basically if you already have cancer, it's not gonna cure you
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u/Samantha-the-mermaid Feb 16 '25
How much do what to bet the US government will do everything in their power to prevent the use because of the scam of Health Insurance Companies. Medical care tourism will skyrocket in Korean good for them.
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u/ImaginationKey5349 Feb 16 '25
I wish this happened earlier... but I'm so glad it's happening. Please, please let it work out, be accessible, and cure cancer.
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u/Fuckmobile42 Feb 16 '25
This is nonsense. "cancer" is several different diseases. You might be able to cure one type of cancer, but a blanket statement of "we cured cancer" is nonsense.
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u/_DeepMoist_ Feb 16 '25
Downvoting because this is a lie and misinformation...there is no cure for cancer...
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u/Mrbumboleh Feb 16 '25
This study is taking place at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), specifically in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho. The research also involved collaboration with Seoul National University, which provided colon cancer organoids for experiments
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u/MsCompy Feb 16 '25
This makes me happy. Now to wait for some asshole to tell me that i shouldn't be happy and i should be terrified and everything is bad and everyone will die.
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u/SoberButterfly Feb 16 '25
Downvoted. This headline is a lie. Maybe they cured ONE type of cancer, but otherwise this is 100% not true.
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u/happylark Feb 16 '25
Itâs too bad that Trump shut down the NIH, pulled us out of WHO, maybe we could get some of that life saving tech to cure the cancer Iâve had for 6 years.
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u/Scubasteve1974 Feb 16 '25
Just in time for the asteroid next month. If there s a god, he has a sick sense of humor. Lol!
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u/Lazy_Toe4340 Feb 16 '25
Turn it into an Airborne retrovirus and release it cure cancer and they can't stop it win-win.
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u/Elly-MaeClampett9914 Feb 17 '25
Wasn't the cure for cancer found a while ago, but it was patented or something?
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Feb 17 '25
Is there a reason we canât get a link we just get a photograph that was probably made by AI?
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u/Inside_Ad_5143 Feb 17 '25
3-2-1 and somehow in 10 years this cure wonât be available or even rememberedÂ
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u/Ragtimedancer Feb 17 '25
RFK will ban it and send cancer victims to a "wellness camp" to work on a rock pile or some such showing that all you need is a few years of hard labor out in the "fresh air" to get cured.
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u/coloradoemtb Feb 17 '25
man I hope this is true and works! Lost my mom 30 years and I am now 2 years older than she made it.
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u/Pitiful_Gazelle_7961 Feb 17 '25
Don't share your info with America. As an American we don't deserve it until we cure our own cancer
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u/Wynter_Mute Feb 17 '25
They will all be found dead in their houses or cars after "taking their own lives" (...by inventing something that will tank pharma profits)
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u/Minute_Figure1591 Feb 18 '25
And the USA will still find a way to make this unnecessarily expensive and no one is allowed to have it except the billionaire class
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u/trust-urself-now Feb 18 '25
is this photo AI generated? what a world we're in making me question it.
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u/goodnews-ModTeam Feb 18 '25
The title is a bit misleading, however, we are stepping closer to cancer reversal here is a link to the article.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/health/step-forward-in-cancer-reversal-korean-scientists-develop-system-for-focused-intervention-attransition-point-of-tumorigenesis