EBOLA IS IN AMERICA

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Yes. Meningitis and flu deaths are sooo not as interesting as bleeding from your eyes and other orifices.

As an aside, I wish people would get all riled up about cancer. I really hate that disease.

There's been some really cool developments for treatments lately that don't involve chemo or irradiation. I've seen very high success rates in an FDA approved tratment of prostate cancer. It's a treatment that involves extracting the patients white cells and treating them medically to turn them into super badass white cells that attack the affected cancer cells. It not only stops the spread, but during the trial 80% of end stage patients made a full recovery.

I think I read something about that. That's cool!!! Am I thinking of something else or do they think it might be helpful for lung cancers too...?

Yeah...

IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR LUNG CANCER

Once thought of as a type of cancer that was poorly immunogenic, lung cancer has recently emerged as an exciting new target of immune-based therapies [1]. Several approaches to immunotherapy for lung cancer have shown promise in early clinical trials and have advanced to late-phase development. Although treatments for non-small cell lung cancer have advanced the farthest, a number of new immune-based treatments for small cell lung cancer, as well as for mesothelioma (another type of lung cancer), are also in clinical development. These treatments can be broken into four main categories: monoclonal antibodies, immune checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic vaccines, and adoptive T cell transfer.

- See more at: http://www.cancerresearch.org/cancer-imm...smmpn.dpuf