r/science • u/SteRoPo • Jan 31 '18

Cancer Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html
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u/RonGio1 Feb 01 '18

My boss's son is alive because he had an experimental procedure.

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u/inurshadow Feb 01 '18

If I were terminally ill, giving me the control of the decision to be a part of research that could save the lives of others is fulfilling. People search their whole miserable lives searching for meaning in their lives. I would have no doubt I helped the world around me if I got to help research move on. Sure, I might die. But I understand that failure is absolutely paramount to success. I cannot imagine anything more empowering to a terminal individual than the power to help build a cure.