Now this could be big
From
Your Jewish News -- an offshoot of the BC Canadian Vancouver Sun:
Jerusalem hospital shows off vaccine that destroys cancer in 2 shots
Early human test results suggest a vaccine can train cancer patients' bodies to seek out and destroy tumour cells.
The therapy, which targets a molecule found in 90 per cent of cancers, eventually could provide an injection that would allow patients' immune systems to fight off common cancers including breast and prostate cancer.
The first results of trials in people, at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, suggest the vaccine can reduce levels of disease. The human work is so preliminary it has yet to be published in a scientific journal.
This could be incredible if it pans out. The problem with Cancer is that there are several thousand of them and they are all different. We get something that works for a swath of 20 or 30 and the rest of them just get a tummyache and go back to killing their host (never said they were intelligent).
A guaranteed Nobel Prize in Medicine for the team if this pans out.
Let's see now,
Jews have about 166 Nobel Prizes and the Arabs have 8.
Says a lot for their love of education and powerful work ethic.
Posted by DaveH at May 14, 2012 9:08 PM