Now we need a cure for Leo.

Cure for cancer. Scientists find something that might be in the realm of possibility of curing cancer.
FTFY

Drug target identification is a big step...now the drug companies need to synthesize and invent a way to screen a few tens of thousands of compounds...then if the FDA likes it we might have something.

Isotope: Drug target identification is a big step...now the drug companies need to synthesize and invent a way to screen a few tens of thousands of compounds...then if the FDA likes it we might have something.

There are plenty of proteins that are downregulated by cancerous cells in order to allow them to proliferate. I see this as just another protein in this list. I really dont see any type of therapy coming out of this, at least directly. Its unlikely to be a protein therapeutic and finding a small molecule that activates this protein in a cancer is a tall order.

Sadly, the "cure for cancer... still no... wait, what?" type of headlines are themselves becoming a Fark cliche. Cancer is cured or almost cured a few times per year. Still no cure for cancer.

ZAZ: Sadly, the "cure for cancer... still no... wait, what?" type of headlines are themselves becoming a Fark cliche. Cancer is cured or almost cured a few times per year. Still no cure for cancer.

There are many different kinds of cancer.

Still no cure for submitters who exaggerate in headlines.

OMG NSFW Pictures of Boobies in TFA!!!

Rhino_man: CHIPS?

Just cause some people look at tranny porn don't make them a homo

I hate these headlines because I have become jaded to them. Go to hell, subby.

Finally! Someone got some Chuck Norris tears.

FTA: "The enzyme occurs naturally in human breast tissue."

Is there nothing that boobies cannot do?

"Suppresses Cancer."
"Controls Cancer."

Cures? Maybe not so much.

Thanks for getting my hopes up for FIVE SECONDS.

hot hot hot

/first thing I thought of.

Jap anus relations.

Screw CHIP, LOX is where it's at.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7813072.stm (new window) (BBC news)

I wish we could cure stupid

cure suppress

/been a FARKer too long when first thing I saw was "X-ray boobies!!!"
// then "ew they are not same size"

hmmm post error:
Ment cure "does not equal" suppress

Once again, Fark proves that you can please some of the people some of the time but mostly it's just not worth the effort.

At issue is the enzyme CHIP, which experts say can stunt cancer growth by degrading a number of cancer-causing proteins. The enzyme occurs naturally in human breast tissue.

You men scientists. Haven't women been degraded enough over the centuries?

/just kidding, awesome news.

Wise_Guy: FTA: "The enzyme occurs naturally in human breast tissue."

Is there nothing that boobies cannot do?

No

DIDN'T YOU SEE I AM A LEGEND INFECTED DOGS CAN COME OUT AFTER DARK OMFG

TehNacho: DIDN'T YOU SEE I AM A LEGEND INFECTED DOGS CAN COME OUT AFTER DARK OMFG

I think that nicely sums up the way we all feel. Well said.

so great, solve cancer. and then what do you do with the extra 20,00,000 a year that stay alive? cancer, the natural correction.

TehNacho: DIDN'T YOU SEE I AM A LEGEND INFECTED DOGS CAN COME OUT AFTER DARK OMFG

And here I was going to make some virus jokes.

bigvicproton: and then what do you do with the extra 20,00,000 a year that stay alive?

Soylent green?

Assuming this goes nowhere, there's still some serious hope on the horizon. For one thing, Senesco Technologies is nearing human trials for a chemotherapy drug that reduces tumors dramatically, but has little to no ill effects.

Instead of the horrible way that chemo drugs work right now, basically coming close to killing the patient, this drug will allow tumor reduction with a few pills a day and living your life as normal. That itself would be an incredible step forward.

Breast Cancer is not the 2nd most common form of cancer, just the single one best promoted

see page 4 for 2008 summary (new window)

New occurences
Site / Both Sexes / Male / Female
1. Lung & bronchus 215,020 114,690 100,330
2. Prostate 186,320 186,320 0
3. Breast 184,450 1,990 182,460
4. Colon† 108,070 53,760 54,310
All sites 1,437,180 745,180 692,000

Hiro's Protagonist: Breast Cancer is not the 2nd most common form of cancer, just the single one best promoted

see page 4 for 2008 summary (new window)

New occurences
Site / Both Sexes / Male / Female
1. Lung & bronchus 215,020 114,690 100,330
2. Prostate 186,320 186,320 0
3. Breast 184,450 1,990 182,460
4. Colon† 108,070 53,760 54,310
All sites 1,437,180 745,180 692,000

That's for the U.S. The article said it's number 2 in the world. I'm not saying they're right for sure, but that link doesn't disprove them.

Narcism: Cure for cancer. Scientists find something that might be in the realm of possibility of curing cancer. Scientists find a possible treatment for reducing the size of breast cancer tumors.


jeesh. "Cure" means something quite a bit different.

Your dog has steak! The French conquer! Picture of attractive baby animal! It is news. It's Fark!

Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it.

/image properly hosted, not hotlinked.

Narcism: Cure for cancer. Scientists find something that might be in the realm of possibility of curing cancer.
FTFY

As with all "miracle cures", this is something we will never here of again, ever.

I think boobs can help in almost all situations....

The Japanese ... is there anything they can't do?

Save teh boobies! Yay!

I imagine when cancer is actually cured it'll only be displayed on politics, with quotes from both Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore in the headline.
The discussion will be about the Jews.

Barakku: I imagine when cancer is actually cured it'll only be displayed on politics, with quotes from both Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore in the headline.
The discussion will be about the Jews.

Bevets might chime in, telling us how science is evil, destroying the ineffable plan of God without realizing that if it can be destroyed then it really wasn't all that ineffable.

Cornwell: Barakku: I imagine when cancer is actually cured it'll only be displayed on politics, with quotes from both Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore in the headline.
The discussion will be about the Jews.

Bevets might chime in, telling us how science is evil, destroying the ineffable plan of God without realizing that if it can be destroyed then it really wasn't all that ineffable.

That sounds like something a Jay-Oh-Oh would say...

She looks hot.

there will not be one cure for cancer, there will be many. many cancers = many cures. like the flu.

It really bothers me how the media just randomly picks journal articles to come out with a story to say "hey, this might be a cure for cancer!". Studies like this come out every week in many journals, and this nothing groundbreaking. There are dozens of proteins that when inhibited stop cancer progression, that doesn't make it a viable target for therapy. Not to mention that the study "injected human cells into mice" - xenograft studies are of very limited use. When they find a way to abate the activity of the protein in a true mouse model, wake me up.

/Yawn

bigvicproton: so great, solve cancer. and then what do you do with the extra 20,00,000 a year that stay alive? cancer, the natural correction.

Kill them at the end of the expected survival time for their particular cancer. They get a few healthy years instead of a few years of suffering.

Put them to work supporting oldsters.

Put them to work doing sex education and distributing contraceptives to cut down on the birth rate.

Send them out to preach Christian Science or Scientology or any other faith that leads its followers to spurn treatments that actually work.

Put them in the infantry, where they get to kill other people.

Put them to work in the space industry, moving us more quickly toward the day when we don't have to be confined to this rock.

Cancer destroys lots of possibilities. We're better off without it.

smithers85: there will not be one cure for cancer, there will be many. many cancers = many cures. like the flu.

Silence you troll. There will be one magical thing that vaccinates us from cancer. Possibly an anti-bacterial, though those are basically the same thing.

Now I'd like to talk about mercury and autism for a minute...

smithers85: there will not be one cure for cancer, there will be many. many cancers = many cures. like the flu.

considering there are as many different kinds of breast cancer as there are women that get it, yeah.

Still no cure for fat chicks

My wonderpenis cures cancer.

subby thinks critique of using a fark cliche on fark is funny.

coarsesalt: subby thinks critique of using a fark cliche on fark is funny.

/O RLY

//*facepalm*

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