Cure found for cancer?

[Torrere]

I don't think so. They are not saying that health-minded mice avoid carcinogens. They're saying that they can cure late-stage cancers in mice. That is a significiant difference. Moreover, it is not common for white blood cells to destroy cancer.

They're saying that they bred a mouse which does not get cancer because it's white blood cells seek and destroy cancer. This ability is inherited by the mouse's descendants.

They can destroy cancers in other mice by injecting those mice with white blood cells from the super-mouse. By this method can eliminate even late-stage cancers. They claim there are no side-effects.

They don't know how the mechanism works or why this mouse's white blood cells destroy cancer, just that they do.

They're not sure how to get this working in humans yet. They're guessing that some humans also have cancer-destroying white blood cells (but you need to think of an ethical way to test for this). They've thought up a possible way to spread the benefits to humans, but they haven't tried it yet.

[Skunks]

Originally Posted by Torrere

They're not sure how to get this working in humans yet. They're guessing that some humans also have cancer-destroying white blood cells (but you need to think of an ethical way to test for this). They've thought up a possible way to spread the benefits to humans, but they haven't tried it yet.

There's an established genetic connection. So solicit volunteers both from the non-cancerous public & current cancer patients. Non-cancerous volunteers would be screened for a family low on cancer, figuring that it's too early to tell what the specific nature of the gene is (I'm being vague here: someone with a better grasp of genetics could probably tell you how cancer-free the family would need to be to have the best chance of being cancer-immune without ruling out possibilities.) Then perform the "magic mouse blood cures cancer" test, subbing in the non-cancerous volunteer & the cancer patient accordingly.

Cancer is a disease with enough public support against it that rousing a massive amount of voluntary blood donations would be remarkably easy.

Although the whole idea of examining the non-cancerous members of society & looking for trends seems so obvious that I wonder what has come of it before.