Cure for cancer?

[bladespark]

This is one of those things that gives me hope for humanity, and makes me lose faith in human nature all at once.

There may be a cure for cancer, safe, cheap, and easy, but it seems that because it’s not going to make anybody buckets of money, nobody’s interested in funding the rest of the reasearch on it.

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[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

i know, im sickened by the fact that because someones not going to get rich off of it, they dont wanna fund it.

hell, they have proof that it works and everything!

im ashamed to belong to a race thats as greedy as this.
saving millions of lives? nah, theyd rather have millions of dollars. bastards.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

And idiots! Whatever company paid for this reasearch to be finished would instandly become famous! Forget making money selling pills, how about slapping "brought to you by the people who cured cancer" on every other product you sell? They're being stupid and short-sighted.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

ooh you have a point. very short-sighted indeed!

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

I'm getting a 404 on that link. That said, it sounds about par for the course as far as humanity's concerned.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

http://media.www.studentprintz.com/media/storage/paper974/news/2007/01/23/Opinion/Scientists.Cure.Cancer.But.No.One.Takes.Notice-2667600.shtml?sourcedomain=www.studentprintz.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Fixed. I keep forgetting that semagic and lj aren't speaking to eachother over pucntiation anymore. (The quotation marks in posts have to be replaced, as they turn into gibberish when posted from Semagic. Which is starting to really piss me off.)

[unspeakablevorn.livejournal.com]

Your client is inserting smart quotes inside of HTML tags; this is Bad Juju and makes the link not work.

Vorn

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed.

How do I get it to stop though?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It never used to do that! It started just a day or two ago. It is seriously annoying me.

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

You can tell this is a college paper. "Here's the deal"? Ugh. Looks to me like DCA has a bright future ahead of it, though. You just can't keep something that promising down for long.

Pardon me for asking, but if that's your fursona, why is it in varying colors of neon?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I've read an offical report on it as well, but that one doesn't mention the problem with funding, just the research results so far.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

Pardon me for asking, but if that's your fursona, why is it in varying colors of neon?

i have a few fursonas, each represents a certain side of me. Harli is my wild and crazy side. shes a cross between an extinct marsupial (the thylacine) and a fantasy creature (neon dragon).

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Neat. All I have is my dark side, my inner child and a Sentinel from the Matrix trilogy milling about in my mind. What other sides of yours find a form on the Internet?

Edmond: Oh, beautiful. We're going to compare personalities with a walking glowstick. What a brilliant idea, Pincushion. Are you going to ask her for her number now?

Sentinel, clamp Edmond's jaw shut for two hours.

Bored Sentinel: ^^^^^^_^^^^^^

Edmond: No--*CLAMP* Mmph.

As you can see, I express these sides of mine mostly for the purpose of silly dialogues.

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Have you filed a complaint with the LJ staff yet?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

It's not lj's fault, it's semagic, my client doing it.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

If I had a dollar for every "this could cure cancer" article my company has published, I'd take the week off.

There are more than a few roadblocks in that field... every cancer is different, first of all. I've been vaccinated against one sort of cancer and only one sort, for instance. Another problem is that no one wants to make the next Thalidomide. Companies want to double, triple, quadruple check all their drugs on every possible kind of person in every situation, but experimenting on humans is really hard to do (and rightly so!), so that takes a long time and a lot of money.

I wouldn't worry too much. Scientists are tenacious, especially when it comes to getting funding. ^_^ Besides, I'm sure there are other countries who would love to do this research, if American companies won't.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

thats awesome. :) mine dont interact with eachother, oddly enough.

i plan to have a suit made of each one.

lets see if i can explain this properly...

Lily is the representation of my girly side. she is a white devon rex cat with one blue eye and one green eye. for example when im feeling lovey or comforting a friend...thats usually Lily.

Harli as i explained is my wacky side. always pulling a goofy stunt or making faces at people. i feel more like Harli than any other side of me.

Rip. Rip is my anger. he is my anger, revenge and hate rolled into one. hes usually placid but when provoked, hes relentless. i portray him as a white, red and black demonic wolf.

Tazu is my natural side. shes adventurous, curious, social, energetic and playful. i portray her as a green eyed thylacine. shes the part of me that surfaces when im in the woods, or writing usually.

Snow is my shy half. shes a bit sad and antisocial. she just prefers to be alone, shes more comfortable that way.
thats the way i usually am in most social situations. i portray her as an albino thylacine.

i dunno if i explained it properly but if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. :)

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read a lot of "this could cure cancer" studies myself.

The reason I felt the need to share this one is that it really does look promising, and that the reason they're not getting funded is kind of scummy. If the drug they're looking into is already in use in humans, it's hardly going to be the next Thalidomide, after all.

[graydown.livejournal.com]

I actually think I may have read an article about this stuff a while back. Here's one from the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html). And it looks like the Canadians are hellbent on getting this stuff approved; they have a website (http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/) where you can keep track of their progress. I guess my point is that a few pharmaceutical companies aren't going to be able to keep a good drug down. ^_^

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. And I'm glad! A cheap drug that cures most cancers would be amazing.

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

It'll go through, no worries. The great thing about DCA is that, if the anticancer aspect of it stays true in humans, the demand for it will be enormous- I am betting even so far that the government's willing to step in to provide more incentive for its production. If this really is close to a cure-all, there's going to be no stopping it.

[scribe-of-stars.livejournal.com]

How did you become interested in the thylacine? Normally you can't walk two steps across this corner of the Internet without stumbling across a fox-, cat-, dragon- or wolf-person, yet you found an obscure, extinct marsupial to embody most of your moods.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

ever since i was little, i adored and dreamed of Australia tho at the time my favourite animal was a kangaroo.

several years ago i saw black and white footage of an animal that captivated me. it was yawning. those jaws...and so thru a bit of research i discovered that it was the thylacine.

its a bit unusual but i think it suits me quite well. :) it makes me feel whole.

[thalass.livejournal.com]

Especially if, as the studentprintz article is right, it can be added as a supliment in drinking water. Though whether it acts as a preventative is another matter, but even so the second you get a tumor growing it is shut down. :P

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

people want profit return

It's not even so much humanity's fault so much as what we have wrought. researech now is done by private companies, there is very little "for the public good" initiatives. And private companies want - no, NEED, profit. Even if the directors WANTED to be altruistic they can be argued to be failing in their fiduciary duty

So we are looking for a wealthy charity or individual to fund it... I would have hoped one of those would

Or we need a society that sees value in something other than currency