Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed the mRNA vaccine to fight not one but any cancer. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy,…
I have heard some interesting argument recently that cancers are probably caused by the body intentionally.
The argument was something like “cancers fulfill the role that programmed cell death fulfills for individual cells”, i.e. it’s a form of suicide. That’s surprisingly good news (if true) because it means that cancer formation is controlled by signal pathways, which could be hacked.
Biologically, this argument makes no sense, it’s almost certainly written by somebody not familiar with physiology and just trying to sound poetic. That or a journalists severely misinterpreting a quote or analogy from a researcher, which also happens quite a lot.
Cancers have a gigantic variety of causes, but a purposeful signaling pathway is not one.
but a purposeful absence of preventive pathway could be one