Samstwitch
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QUESTION: Has cancer or AIDS been cured yet?
JOHN TITOR: Aids, no. Cancer, some progress.
QUESTION: Do medical advances in 2036 have anything to do with genetics?
JOHN TITOR: Again, I'm no expert. I believe there is a great deal of progress in treating the cancer cells with modified viruses. So I guess the answer is yes.
Poliovirus kills woman's brain cancer
April 19, 2014 - [Excerpt] In May 2012, doctors at Duke injected a modified version of the poliovirus into the tumor in Stephanie Lipscomb's brain. A researcher there spent 20 years figuring out the virus would attach to the bad cells -- and kill them -- without harming Stephanie in any way.
“Looking back, I’m like oh my gosh, I cannot believe I agreed to do that so quickly. And like I’ve told other people before, I knew that was God.”
Incredibly, last July doctors told Stephanie her tumor was gone. Her MRI from this January shows only scar tissue remains. Her story is featured in this week’s People magazine.
Stephanie is cancer free as she gets ready to celebrate the 23rd birthday doctors said she'd never see.
This is still in the experimental stages. A handful of other patients are now involved. The hope is that this same treatment can someday be used to fight other cancers as well. Read More
JOHN TITOR: Aids, no. Cancer, some progress.
QUESTION: Do medical advances in 2036 have anything to do with genetics?
JOHN TITOR: Again, I'm no expert. I believe there is a great deal of progress in treating the cancer cells with modified viruses. So I guess the answer is yes.
Poliovirus kills woman's brain cancer
April 19, 2014 - [Excerpt] In May 2012, doctors at Duke injected a modified version of the poliovirus into the tumor in Stephanie Lipscomb's brain. A researcher there spent 20 years figuring out the virus would attach to the bad cells -- and kill them -- without harming Stephanie in any way.
“Looking back, I’m like oh my gosh, I cannot believe I agreed to do that so quickly. And like I’ve told other people before, I knew that was God.”
Incredibly, last July doctors told Stephanie her tumor was gone. Her MRI from this January shows only scar tissue remains. Her story is featured in this week’s People magazine.
Stephanie is cancer free as she gets ready to celebrate the 23rd birthday doctors said she'd never see.
This is still in the experimental stages. A handful of other patients are now involved. The hope is that this same treatment can someday be used to fight other cancers as well. Read More