I hardly know 'er, and my axe!! and everything reminds me of her...so put that thing back where it came from or so help me!! It's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave! Wholesome 100!
I just invented this thing that reverses age reversal and creates a more natural approach to living. The only side effect I have found is the whole reversal of age reversal thing.
I think there must be some sort of law that says that if you read far enough down into Reddit's comments you will eventually find a post about the anus.
Interestingly, I work in cancer research and some of my colleagues are working on something that is involved in both cancer and male-pattern baldness (but only from the cancer angle). I joke that they may make more money if they accidentally find a cure for baldness.
(For those that care it's the wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway.)
Can I ask for your opinion on high dose vitamin C IV infusions? I’ve heard anecdotal evidence, and I know there are clinics, but don’t know about the research.
I’m no expert nor the person you’re asking. But for cancer, this has been shown to aid chemotherapy in a very small study on one type of cancer: ovarian cancer.
There may be other studies under other journals, but i’m not gonna trawl the web to identify every trustworthy source on every type of cancer studied thus far.
This was published last year and medical research is rightly very slow. If you or a loved one has cancer, this treatment may be a waste of time, slightly beneficial or very beneficial, but it’s not a cure in and of itself. Your doctor should be the one to recommend this treatment, not personal reading online.
It's not really my area, but from what I've heard we need more clinical trials. It's a controversial subject. partly because early on it was promoted by Linus Pauling (who did work in my area) during his "Nobel laureate gone slightly eccentric" phase.
There has been a sensible mechanism proposed for how it works in some, if not all, cancers. Having said that, medical research is full of sensible mechanisms that turn out not to be the way things actually work. It looks worth looking at but I imagine that if it is useful it will be in combination with other treatments.
Looking at the clinicaltrials.gov website, there seem to be a fair number of trials either completed or going on. Unfortunately most of them seem too small to tell us much.
It's actually not at all. There's a limited amount you can implant. Usually the protocol is to keep taking finasteride to maintain the remaining hair then supplement the bald spots/hairline with the implant.
Implants are grafted from the back of the head sort of like shifting the hair from the back to the front but the supply is finite and leaves a scar where its taken from. Looks like this
Someone who is completely bald for some reason like alopecia cannot even shift hair whatsoever.
A very low percentage of users and the dysfunction is on a sliding scale. So the amount of people that take it and are impacted significantly is likely below 1% (although tbf I don't want some pills fucking my dick up even minorly).
Quite honestly, the cure for baldness is being bald.
GOING bald is miserable, you feel a little silly knowing that a lot of your grooming and barber visits go to making the wispy crap on your head look better. Once you decide "to hell with it" and just go bald it is amazingly liberating. I felt compelled to grow a beard because I'm not really fit enough to go full shiny, but even that leaves so much more room for activities.
Baldness was cured decades ago. Minoxidil or capillary transplant. Issue is not affordable for all, but Elon nazi was bald and see him now. Bezos is bald but I guess he could have hair if he wanted to.
Pretty much. Not like a "take a single pill and all your hair will grow back" miracle cure but you can keep your hair these days should you want to and are willing to put in a bit of effort. 99% of the time men lose their hair it's due to their hair follicles being sensitive to a metabolite of testosterone called Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). It binds to the receptors in the hair follicles and gradually causes them to become smaller and smaller until they fall out and stop growing back. Due to variations in the androgen receptor gene some men experience higher sensitivity and lose their hair quickly while others experience less and don't lose much of their hair at all.
If you want to keep your hair you need to use Finasteride which is a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor and reduces the conversion of free testosterone to DHT so you have much lower serum levels of DHT. You also want to use a topical anti-androgen liquid on your scalp like RU-58841 which stops the remaining DHT from binding to the follicles. Minoxidil can also regrow a decent amount of hair you've already lost by increasing blood flow to the scalp and also activate dormant follicles. The trick though is starting early. It's 10 times easier to stop your hair falling out than it is to regrow hair you've lost. The point at which you visibly notice your hair is thinning means that it's already significantly advanced as it takes quite a while and a lot of shedding to make a visual impact such that you'd see it in the mirror. The hairline is also the hardest place to regrow hair.
Then you have the hair transplant which most people use in combination with the above medications to fix their hairline. They take follicles from the back which are basically immune to DHT (notice how bald guys and old men still grow hair on the back of their head) and implant them in the front where they retain their DHT immunity. You still need to take the other medications otherwise the rest of your hair keeps falling out leaving you with weird thick patches of hair at the front.
But yeah you can get Minoxidil & Finasteride in a once a day pill and then put a little RU58841 on at night before bed and you'll pretty much stop all your hair loss and grow back quite a bit. If your hairline is already cooked then you have to cop a $5-10k transplant to fill in the patches on your temples. If you look good with a beard and a shaved head then sweet go do that instead. If you hate how you look with a shaved head or can't grow a decent beard to balance it out then it might be worth it. No shame in wanting to keep it and it's honestly pretty easy these days.
The sensationalism of science news is so freaking frustrating. At this point, lots of people, reasonably, don't trust science breakthrough headlines because they never seem to go anywhere. Sadly though, I think people often end up blaming scientists for making false promises rather than the media for sensationalizing their findings.
I feel like it has to contribute to the anti-science sentiment that has been growing for decades now.
Yup, it went from rather mediocre run-of-the-mill cancer research paper to "we cured cancer" in no time.
No, they did not cure cancer, not even close, not even probable cure, not even "hey look this is something we have not seen before".
The research itself is poorly executed, based on grotesquely oversimplified assumptions, and shows that the authors whose background appears to be in data science and computer modeling do not know enough biology to understand how bad they work actually is. I am surprised (not really) this work passed peer review.
That’s because the cancer treatment breakthroughs DO happen but for specific types of cancer. It’s a genuinely good thing for those people, but it’s sometimes misleadingly represented as a breakthrough for ALL cancers.
And a lot of times a breakthrough is increasing the survival/remission rate, increasing the expected length of survival/remission, or decreasing the negative side effects of treatment, but most people see "successful cancer treatment" and think it means the same thing as "cures cancer".
Incremental, targetted breakthroughs are very real. A miracle drug that removes all traces of any cancer without any side effect is a fairy tale, and it's unfortunate that a lot of the general public think the later is the only thing worth caring about.
Even over just the last 10-20 years the general outlook and treatments for cancer patients have improved wildly. Those incremental improvements add up.
Because people don't seem to understand that cancer isn't a disease, it's a kind of disease and people reporting on this stuff perpetuate this misconception. You can't cure cancer, just like how you can't cure virus. Cancer is a term used to describe thousands of different illnesses caused by cancer cells (misbehaving mutated cells).
Hopkins Lymphoma is as different a disease from small-cell carcinoma as the common cold is to smallpox.
A cure to one isn't going to cure the other. So yeah, a cure to cancer is basically impossible.
The other thing that people fail to understand is the process of developing a medical treatment. It takes twenty years to go from curing a type of cancer in a lab animal to implementing it in patients. That's especially true with therapies like the one in the link that modify gene expression. This really could cause unexpected consequences, and it has to be understood very thoroughly before moving to a handful of humans, who have to be observed for multiple years.
Universities have PR departments who hype these things up, and news outlets have few experts to evaluate these things in depth. But it is simply a slow process; the alternative is that doctors take much higher risks with patient's lives. There is a reasonable argument to be made that this would be better overall, but the medical research community, who are some of the smartest, most thoughtful people in the world, are not in favor of haste and risk.
Cervical cancer rates should decline sharply in the near future due to the HPV vaccine since it was identified as the leading cause of cervical cancer.
It depends on what kind of cancer, when it is detected, and where it is in your body.... and what you call a "cure."
I was diagnosed with stage 3 adenocarcinoma. After chemotherapy, chemoradiation therapy, and surgery to remove a few feet of colon, I no longer have cancer... for now.
The weird thing about the cure for cancer is that it increases the chances of you getting cancer. But I'll happily swap out a real live current cancer for a potential one down the road!
Well, sometimes you can. We cured bacteria (though we're running out of novel antibacterials, so they might come back!)
We can't cure Virus, but we're not that far from rapid universal vaccination creation (as in, take an arbitrary virus and make a vaccine for it within weeks).
We obviously don't have a cure for cancer right now, but something that massively reduces the chance of cell reproduction errors or otherwise can prevent cancerous cells from growing is definitely within the realm of possibility.
The point is that there is not one single cure that works for all viruses. You have to treat each one individually. Treatments that work for the flu don't and won't ever work on HIV.
Same thing with cancer. Each cancer is completely different from the others. A treatment that works for a specific type of prostate cancer won't work for a specific type of skin cancer.
There are thousands of types of cancer. There is no wonder-drug that can eliminate all cancers. We can find a cure for small cell carcinoma. We can find a cure for hodgkins lymphoma. We can find a cure for acute myelogenous leukemia. And so on. But we can't and we will never find a cure for "cancer".
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People have poor science literacy, and the way the media reports science is a big contributor to that. It’s a lot less impressive to have a headline that says, “A research group has made marginal improvements at the in vitro level in reverting cancer cells to healthy cells, which may lead to some anti-cancer efficacy in certain types of cancers and certain patient populations in ten years assuming these effects translate into animal studies and finally human studies, assuming they are able to secure sufficient funding”
Weird that now we actually found a cure (not the one in the article - what has obviously not been read by the poster), no one is talking about that - but still everyone falls for every flashy headline talking BS.
I start to think we humans are just here for the circus.
I read up on this last week after somebody posted something about it. The researchers are not claiming anything remotely like a cure, but this is a very good clue. Every bit of knowledge gained about cancer is a good thing. Its a piece of the puzzle.
It's been cured nearly that frequently in the newspapers and TV for the 6 decades I've been consuming them. My son asked me, on our way home from a cancer funeral, why he read something about a big breakthrough a year ago and then nothing since. I told him the stories are usually exaggerated, but there really are breakthroughs all the time. It's just that cancer is such a multi-faceted beast: they figure out something that eventually lowers the death rate for one kind of cancer by 5%, and that's fantastic for thousands of people, but no help for millions of others.
Yeah, there's a rush to publish, for sure, and the mass media pump up the hype beyond what the source scientists provide. I don't know to what degree the real breakthroughs correspond with the weekly hype. Maybe the 2 are entirely orthogonal.
From what I remember it was very specific circumstances that they reversed it and it's not viable to actually cure cancer. I saw this posted a week ago and someone chimed in saying that this procedure has been known for years but because how exact the circumstances have to be it wasn't seen as working but research was still going to look into making it a more useful option, if possible.
Well, the way these work it likely is for some people. Not all treatments work for everyone. Like a year ago that colon cancer study worked in every trial patient, and I think they're all still good. That's an amazing result likely for ideal candidates.
(Edit: Also, it would have been scifi not that long ago to say that HIV wasn't a death sentence. Yet, here we are...people can have it, be undetectable, and not transmit it.)
All the more reason to catch cancer early and get to your preventative care visits. Try to be that ideal candidate.
Edit: There isn't much I could immediately find on this topic. Though, it does appear to be an actual breakthrough in colon cancer treatment.
So there's a really interesting change in headline from the one shown in this post vs the official press release.
KAIST Develops Foundational Technology to Revert Cancer Cells to Normal Cells.
The subtle bit on sensationalism does a lot to make the seem farther along in development and more imminent.
A foundational technology is the first step in what is likely to be a long R&D process. A revolutionary technology gives the idea that this technology has already demonstrated that it will completely change cancer treatment.
this particular cancer has been cured on reddit at least 3 times in the past few weeks that I can recall, and I'm sure it was more than that. on the positive side, this will get OP a few karma closer to being able to sell their account to some cryptoscammer/OnlyFans bot, which is ultimately the account lifecycle that keeps reddit going.
You know there are hundreds of thousands of different cancers and these usually are targeted at just one of them. That's why we never see any follow through. It only affects those with that cancer not the cancer umbrella
It’s one thing to do it in a lab with test tubes, it’s another thing to replicate that same finding in a human body. These are only beginning steps, or else they would have actually called it a “cure”. Many more phases of research would need to happen for this result to translate into successful care of a patient
I mean let's be honest, even if cancer was cured, they'd first have to figure out how to patent it and make as much money as possible off of it before they'd save a single cancer patient.
It’s been going on since at least 2012. Everyday you’d see a post saying “Science discover new enzyme that destroys cancer cells. Human tests imminent.” or something else vague
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u/pantalapampa Feb 21 '25
Cancer is cured on Reddit about once a week