Has cancer just been cured?
" In 1996 Doug Olson was diagnosed with cancer: a form of Leukemia.
"I was only 49 years old and I had a wife and four kids," recounts Olson.
His doctor told him he would need a bone marrow transplant, which only had a 50-50 chance of succeeding. But if he wanted to risk it, there was a new procedure developed by Dr. Carl June of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. June developed a way to re-engineer a patient's own white cells to target a specific cancer not just once, but forever.
"So we give cells to the patient once and it lasts the rest of their lives," explains June.
It had worked on a patient named Emma, but there was a risk, too.
"Emma had fevers of 106 degrees for a week. That's a violent reaction that the immune system does to get rid of the tumors," says June.
Doug Olson agreed to try the procedure. The re-engineered cells were infused into his compromised immune system. And he came down with what felt like the world's worst case of the flu - to the point it was shutting down some of his organs. But then, after suffering for a week, his symptoms suddenly disappeared and his doctor walked in with the test results.
"He said, 'Doug, we can't find a cancer cell in your body. Your bone marrow is completely clean.'"
And now, a report released at a medical conference in New Orleans confirms the procedure has produced complete remission in a significant number of patients whose cancer was considered incurable - patients like Doug Olson, who didn't waste any time.
"My wife picked me up from the hospital, we drove straight to the Indianapolis Boat Show and we bought a sailboat," he says.
He has been cancer free for three years.
International clinical trials will start next year - and Dr. June says the procedure is so promising that instead of the 12 years it usually takes to get approval, he expects it to take three or four. "
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..A heart-warming and 'hopeful' cure for others - story. Someone's Christmas wish, maybe?
This sounds like a very promising result for chronic lymphocytic leukemia . Of course there are other cancers ...
Thank you for stopping, by, Petey. The title caused me to think about that, too; I almost changed it.
Maybe there are other blood disorders/cancers that could benefit, maybe not from targeting the bone marrow in their cures, but somehow affecting the white cells that are often compromised.
I'm hoping that someone sees this that knows someone that might be able to benefit.
Merry Christmas..
I hope. Even if it cures only one kind of cancer, it is still a cure, and hopefully, the beginning of brighter days ahead for cancer patients.
I certainly hope!
What a blessing that would be!
Me too, Dowser.. Thanks for stopping by.
Yes it would, Six. Thank you!
Yes. An answer to many many many prayers. Hope for those who have so little hope against a disease that is utterly awful.
My mother had a malignant brain tumor removed this past summer. She is very difficult to deal with, without being ill and suffering the effects of dementia. BUT, a brain tumor can be especially cruel.
I'm happy to read her brain surgery went well. The last I recall was your mentioning that she had the tumor. Her condition also is diagnosed with dementia? I'm sorry. I understand the difficulty to a degree - the loss of memory in all of the little [and big] things we do is devastating - even remembering if we ate. Independence is lost. And then it usually ends in organ failure and loss of some motor skills, I believe. It seems humiliating. Brain tumors I'm not as familiar with from first-hand experience involving others. The fear and emotionalism must be overwhelming.
JFT, I feel the same. It sure is encouraging.
This will be fought tooth and claw by the Big Pharmacy companies and Manufactures of Radiation equipment. No more Chemotherapy. Hope the Hollywood scene gets behind him to get these tests completed.
A few other trial are being run on turning on the bodys cells to fight Cancer and this is done thru food and special diets to turn on the bodies immune system. This sounds much faster and huge prices can be charged for the cells. So Pharmacutical companies can still play god. Lets pray it passes and is affordable for everyone. Gal who comes here to watch grandma has a eight year old relative with cancer which has mastecized.
Mainly, she's just mean as a snake. I've called her doctor today and requested that he up her dosage of anti-anxiety medication, because she's not being mean to everyone, not just me!
I'm so sorry to hear that...
Good point. I often tend to think along those lines as well... one thing always leads to another, giving cause to purchasing more and continually better diagnostics---but 'someone' has to pay for them. It seems if there was suddenly less need to use them, then they will creatively cause a new 'need.' Common sense.
Medical conditions and topics have been an interest of mine for a long time, and now my own mother is - in my mind, anyway, but not in her's - a victim of what I suggested long ago to her. She, like many, has always conceded with doctors to take this or that med for minor conditions along the way, then she developed later in life an RA condition, and proceeded to take those drugs, which two of them were eventually taken off the Market. So, a drug that she has been taking for the last eight years has all of those 'scary' "side effects" (I laugh at their use of that term -- they aren't side effects -- they are 'conditions') we often read or hear of in the media, to which one is "blood disorders."
Now, eight years later, she has a 'form' of a blood disorder that the doc had been watching, but didn't recommend that she discontinue any meds, that has turned cancerous. I once asked her why she would take a drug that suggested it could/would cause a disorder; she just grimaced and shook her head at me...as usual with my skepticism. But, I can't help not thinking that she was used as a guinea pig [doctor watching a condition progressing] by both her doc and the drug company...and will now pay a huge price from the medi insurance coffers [that 'we' have to pay as a taxpayer], as well as with her life. Who benefited there, she or the Big Business Cartels, in the big scheme of things..
Mean-spiritedness is so painful to the victim, and I often wonder if they do feel guilty for what they caused later, even if they are capable of hiding it. I recall some of your comments from the past, sounding like that was 'always' the case...I wonder if she was sick long before anyone knew. I only suggest that after closely watching my father; his personality did change long before his cancer was diagnosed.
BF, I agree that government can/does prevent private enterprise from succeeding...thinking of all of the Fisheries articles from an author on the Vine. Thanks, too, for mentioning Regenokine. I looked it up out of curiosity. Interesting procedure. You once caused me to look up Deer Antler spray, too.
Sounds like you might have been headed in both of those directions due to sports.
Back surgeries carry a lot of risk as well as scar tissue pain and discomfort, from what I've read [although, more surgeries can help that -but still...]. I think I would go the alternative route, too, at least 'first,' anyway.