Killing cancer like the common cold
Source: CNN.COM
Nick Wilkins was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 4 years old, and when the cancer kept bouncing back, impervious to all the different treatments the doctors tried, his father sat him down for a talk.
John Wilkins explained to Nick, who was by then 14, that doctors had tried chemotherapy, radiation, even a bone marrow transplant from his sister. "I explained to him that we're running out of options," Wilkins remembers telling his son.
There was one possible treatment they could try: an experimental therapy at the University of Pennsylvania.
This new therapy was decidedly different from the treatments he'd received before: Instead of attacking his cancer with poisons like chemotherapy and radiation, the Philadelphia doctors taught Nick's own immune cells to become more adept at killing the cancer.
Two months later, he emerged cancer-free. It's been six months since Nick, now 15, received the personalized cell therapy, and doctors still can find no trace of leukemia in his system.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/07/health/cohen-cancer-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Could this be?? Fingers crossed!!
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All the money big pharma loses when our bodies are trained to defend themselves, instead of us hoping the poisons they give us get the cancer before the poisons get us!
Big pharma. Genetic immunotherapy is a complicated, developing realm in medicine, from what I can gather. Research and development takes money.
I applaud the research and hope it means more progress like those in the trials. Kudos. And best of luck to all, especially those most able to benefit - those that will be cancer survivors.
Those commercials - those INCESSANT commercials - they annoy me, too! "Ask your doctor if (fill in the drug blank here) is right for you!" I'm intrigued by the wording, as well. That sounds like some PR-massaged and focus-tested sloganeering line to me. The wording in these ads always fascinates me, but then again, I've always got my radar on for these things and the way words and phrases are manipulated and sanitized and tested - in order to manipulate us the consumers. I'm even bothered a little bit by the term "consumers." Like we're not really people (oh yeah, I forgot - corporations are the people these days), we're just large open mouths looking to be fed and sated nonstop. One direction - just consuming. One giant flesh-covered intake valve. Wonder who it was - who originated the use of that word "consumer" the way we know it and use it today?
And the other word-game I find perplexing is what seems to be the tidying-up of ailments and physical conditions that you don't spell out. You nickname them instead. "Low-T," for example. Can't they just say "low testosterone" instead of trying to be so coy and cutesy?
I'm bothered about that same thing that bothers you, Blus4u. Just take a pill and it'll be all better. Anesthetize yourself and your problems will just melt away, America! Same for alcohol - it's sexy, edgy, macho, adventuresome, alluring, and hot. Followed in the next spot break by the friendly and sympathetic rehab clinic commercials of course. Buy-buy-buy! And your other incredibly valid point, too: meantime, they still want to string you up for smoking a little weed.
way too much sense!!!!!
Like the did with the flu and polio vaccines?
My brother-in-law just died of cancer (dx'd two mos. ago) the other day. It was not but one month ago that his older brother died of cancer as well after a bout of suffering for about one year.
My "cousin" is on his way out now too best I know -- I dare not call my "aunt" to inquire. 
M mother died of cancer -- dead two mos. after the DX; seemingly sudden onset.
My younger brother (43 at the time) died of cancer of the liver (never drank, smoked, nothing) after nine mos. of radiation/chemotherapy.
A good friend died of cancer about one year ago after having a tumor removed that was discovered and he was declared "cancer free" after months of radiation and chemotherapy. Then all of a sudden it is metastasized and he was gone two months later as well.
One thing I do know is that it makes little if any sense at all to treat disease that runs rampant when the immune system is not intact or is being modified and/or toyed with in some way, either with other medications that cause cancer (like interferons) or other methods.
I view this info. posted to be one that gives me some hope. I don't have a lot of hope left I must admit when it comes to hearing someone has cancer -- close the coffin already is what I tend to think but never dare say.
Thanks for posting some hope. I needed this as I'm sure others here do as well. I'm burned out I must admit and sad as all hell too, as I really loved my brother-in-law and did not make it to his funeral the other day. He was a fine man is all I will say about him which more of less says everything one would care to know about him.
Cancer affects not just the person with the cancer, but it is sheer hell for those that love the person and witness them die a most miserable death.
RIP my friends and relatives and the rest of those suffering from this curse of a disease as well as their friends/families.
& recommend.
Both President Clinton and President Obama lost their mother to cancer..
I lost the kindest women I ever knew, my sweet mother-in-law, to cancer..
It does seem to run in families and yet some never even come close to getting cancer…
to you and your family
Tikki
I'm having a very difficult time getting into the "Holiday Spirit" this year.
I contemplated buying a box of Xmas cards but didn't bother as I see nothing to celebrate.
The sooner this year is gone the better -- what a damn hell!
I believe it does run in families. My own family history is ridden with cancer -- had four male cousins all born back-to-back. All of them were dead from cancer before the age of 55 years or much sooner and the parents of said cousins both died of cancer as well.
What a damn curse there is upon my family, my real family I'm speaking of. Mother was adopted hence the reason for referring to my "aunt" as such. From what I know there is little if any cancer found in her real family (that I found after she died).
So, who the hell knows?
Thanks for the condolences. I do appreciate it very much as I am sad beyond belief and these stupid crying jags are getting me nowhere.
I really should stay off-line. God only knows what I might post at the wrong moment in time right now.
can be SO hard, especially for people in mourning. I think about all the families in Newtown - DAMN. Of course that had to happen on DECEMBER 14th.
NOBODY should be unhappy now - actually, let me rephrase that: Nobody DESERVES to be unhappy now. Just know that if you stick around here, you will find great sympathy and comfort. People here have mighty big shoulders and open hearts. When my mom died seven years ago (cancer was just about the only thing she didn't have by then) I posted here - and was literally OVERWHELMED by the love and care and compassion and sympathy that almost literally rained down on me. I'm glad you're posting about it. Especially here. You'll also find a lot of people who can empathize - having lost loved ones of their own to cancer, and many other causes as well. I can't tell you how much it meant to me - all these people I really didn't know, who were there, comforting me and sort of keeping vigil with me. I think it was Skittles who observed "someone's always here." Someone IS always here. Somebody's always awake. Somebody's always keeping the light on. You need not bear this alone, even as bad a year as this has been for you. DU will buoy you up.
My father has pancreatic cancer. It's currently stable but at almost 82, I don't know how much more of the treatments he can weather.
He's just getting tired all the time now which fills me with a lot of anxiety.
He is lucky to have you as his son and you are there for him. This is so very important!
I wish you and your father the best and if he is suffering, I hope he passes quickly.
Thanks to everyone for you kind thoughts/prayers, etc.
He's been lucky so far that it hasn't been painful, well except for the surgery.
The worst thing has been the feaking chemo.
I swear that one study trial he was in (which didn't help) almost killed him.
He decided after that that he wasn't going to do that again.
He is on maintenance therapy for now.
He is much more focused on quality of life rather than quantity now.
Thanks again for the good wishes! 
It will magically "dissapear", just like all the other "breakthroughs".
Likewise, this (I'm sure quite expensive and lucrative ''treatment'') does nothing to address all the poisons that we're creating, living in, drinking in, eating in, swimming in, bathing in and breathing in -- which is the cause of many of these cancers. It's just another damned chemical fix designed to repair the damage being done by all those other chemicals that another group of scientists created for the greed industry and who have put out there into the environment without any concern whatsoever as to who gets hurt. So fuck BIG PHARMA!
It's ''progress'' that is killing us. We KNOW this. If you want to be healthy, you have to start with yourself. You have to save yourself. The science of the free market will make you sick, just to make money off of you. The medical industry wants to make money off of you by selling you pills and treatments instead of addressing the source of these problems.
Science can't teach an immune cell a damned thing. Science doesn't even understand immune cells. Science can describe what they do. Science can manipulate them. But Science still doesn't understand that mechanism either. Science is a tool to use to try and understand a thing. Science isn't the answer to that thing, and it sure as hell ain't wisdom or intelligence. Science just a bunch of facts. What things do. Understanding what things do, doesn't mean you understand them.
Our bodies are smarter than our egos. Stop eating, breathing, bathing in this shit and poison, and see how fast we all get well. Damn, it's so simple. The truth is right there at the end of our nose. If we can only see it.
The US government has known since at least 1974 that cannabis kills cancer cells. This is documented.
In 1988 scientists discovered that our own bodies produce a form of cannabis (called: endocannabinoids), that are essential for proper health and organ function. And that a person including foods that are high in endocannabinoids into one's diet can address a myriad of health problems. From diabetes to leukemia to brain cancer. Cannabis has been shown to repair damaged nervous systems and scientists learned for the first time that our nervous systems are two-way communication systems, not one-way.
We don't need another hero, Science. We don't need another silver bullet from Science's labcoats. What we need is for Science to stop poisoning us. If Science can start there, that'd be good. Then Science can workout how to clean up the damage that they've already unleashed upon us.
You got diabetes? Eat/juice cannabis. You got cancer? Eat/juice cannabis. You got nerve damage? Eat/juice cannabis. It turns out that cannabis is perfectly made for the human body. The best damned thing on the planet, in fact. No wonder they don't want us to have it. More of it, means less of them.
If you can't eat or juice cannabis because this totally dangerous and medically un-useful weed that the US government has itself patented for the very medical purposes it claims from the other side of its mouth, that it does not to have, is ILLEGAL -- then get yourself some CBD.
CBD is a food supplement loaded with cannabidiol: CBD and CBN. It's made from industrial hemp that's perfectly legal. It uses the stems, the branches and even the roots of the cannabis plant where most of these cannabinoids can be found. It's non-psychotropic. No high. No cops.
And will kick a cancer cell's ass simply by telling it: ''Its time for you to die.''
Cannabis Science - How Marijuana Affects Health - Educational Documentary
- Wake. Up.