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Title: Health Physics might become obsolete...
Post by: G-reg on May 31, 2009, 02:20
Take a look at this article from the Associated Press:

* Immune therapies finally working against cancer * (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_he_me/us_med_cancer_vaccines_3)

So now who cares if radiation gives you cancer?  All you have to do is go to the nurse's office and get a shot!

From the article:
Now, doctors have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with a way to fight cancer: using the body's natural defender, the immune system.

The approach is called a cancer vaccine, although it treats the disease rather than prevents it.

Experimental vaccines against four cancers — lymphoma, prostate, melanoma, and an often fatal childhood tumor called neuroblastoma — gave positive results in late-stage testing in recent weeks, after decades of struggles in the lab.


[P.S.  It's still a loooonng way from being perfected.]
Title: Re: Health Physics might become obsolete...
Post by: UncaBuffalo on May 31, 2009, 08:14
Quote from: G-reg on May 31, 2009, 02:20
Take a look at this article from the Associated Press:

* Immune therapies finally working against cancer * (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_he_me/us_med_cancer_vaccines_3)

So now who cares if radiation gives you cancer?  All you have to do is go to the nurse's office and get a shot!

From the article:
Now, doctors have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with a way to fight cancer: using the body's natural defender, the immune system.

The approach is called a cancer vaccine, although it treats the disease rather than prevents it.

Experimental vaccines against four cancers — lymphoma, prostate, melanoma, and an often fatal childhood tumor called neuroblastoma — gave positive results in late-stage testing in recent weeks, after decades of struggles in the lab.


[P.S.  It's still a loooonng way from being perfected.]

Great article...thanks!  :)
Title: Re: Health Physics might become obsolete...
Post by: Mike McFarlin on Jun 18, 2009, 01:24
Good article since we are all the test subjects.
Title: Re: Health Physics might become obsolete...
Post by: HydroDave63 on Jun 18, 2009, 02:06
Quote from: G-reg on May 31, 2009, 02:20
So now who cares if radiation gives you cancer?  All you have to do is go to the nurse's office and get a shot!

Will this rekindle the hormeisis debate? ;)
Title: Re: Health Physics might become obsolete...
Post by: G-reg on Jun 18, 2009, 10:09
Quote from: HydroDave63 on Jun 18, 2009, 02:06
Will this rekindle the hormeisis debate? ;)

Why not?  We could package it all up into one HP policy: at low doses radiation is good for you, at high doses you take two of these pills & call your doctor in the morning, and why yes I did try looking for work in the past week...   :P