Cancer Journal #35 May 26

 I'm pretty sure the algorithm on my aggregate news site knows I have cancer.  I get a lot of stories on advances in the fight against cancer.  I wish the algorithm would learn that I have no interest in the Kardashians but I should not carp.

Anyway, I read a story today reporting that they have found a way to revive, "exhausted T-cells" that are embedded in the cancer tumors in mice.  Cancer has found a way to render ineffective these immunity cells that would otherwise be a potent cancer fighting agent.  Scientists in Switzerland have found a way of rejuvenating these cells in mice. This treatment of reviving T-cells has been effective in shrinking the tumors in 90% of the mice. I forwarded this article to my Vitamin C Infusion cancer friend and entitled the email, "Cancer's future looks bad" or something like that.

Cancer's future does look bad.  The dominos are falling.  All the ingenious attacks made against it, all the high tech ways that they use to understand its processes are going to crack this thing.  What I do now is a holding action until that time comes.  It's a great time to have cancer!  I feel bad about those who had it before this golden age of cancer therapy.

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  1. Jan CMay 28, 2021 at 6:41 AM

    I am thankful for smart people doing such work! Reviving T-cells would likely not only help fight cancer but also many other diseases and illnesses.

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    1. charlieschaeferMay 29, 2021 at 6:32 PM

      Yes, I think this is the same T-cell of COVID fame. However, as I understand it, cancer has a unique ability to exhaust it. Defeating that may have some application to other immunity problems which would be great. I'm all for making our immunity system more effective. Especially since it wears down as we get older.

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    2. Jan CMay 30, 2021 at 11:13 AM

      Absolutely!

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