Mayo Clinic trial: Massive blast of measles vaccine wipes out cancer

[The Brain]

And wake me when they can cure fat chicks.

[Legbiter]

And wake me when they can cure fat chicks.

[Ed Anger]

[Razgovory]

So that's a no .... ?

It's not universally agreed if viruses are even alive.  How viruses came about is one of the great mysteries of biology.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Cool, but it's one patient... so who knows. Get excited when there's a randomized control trial showing this technique to be effective. As it stands this article was published prematurely. But I guess science writers need to make a paycheck somehow.

Yeah, these sort of things rarely are directly going to end up as true "cures" themselves, but they help expand our knowledge which is always good for going down the path towards more and more robust treatment options. It's like that girl who had rabies, and her doctor put her into a drug induced coma and I believe pumped a bunch of other stuff into her to keep her stabilized for awhile...and basically it allowed the rabies to run its course but without shredding her brain and killing her as rabies normally does. While it was an interesting case study, and has been replicated in a few instances, most cases where other doctors have tried it the patients have died.

[Jaron]

Huh...cancer wipes out by a measly virus.