Cuba Has a Lung Cancer Vaccine—And America Wants It
May 13, 2015 10:58:16 GMT -6
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Hmmmm? This is interesting to read about.
Who would have thought it? If you read the detailed account of what this actually is, then it sounds like it may work as advertised too!
The article goes on to note that the West already has things like this (They do??? Funny...My father died hard of Lung Cancer without a thing like this ever being hinted at?) so they aren't intererested in it for how Cuba is using it, but hoping to expand on it for other uses. Perhaps a full blown vaccination rather than immuno-stimulant for added life.
...and of course, we all know that Western Medicine wouldn't use this unless they could charge about 1000x markup per dose, and never give it out to anyone free. Oh heavens no.... Extending life is BIG BIG money and BIG profit ...or not, for those who can't afford to live.
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Well, here is hoping that behind whatever dirty tricks and likely harmful motives our President has behind this move for unconditional forgiveness of...pretty much everyone it seems..some good may come of it. Perhaps places like Cuba will be able to share things they had to learn the hard way, before the "easy way" comes to define what they do too, and $1 doses to extend life 6 months become as much fantasy there as it would be to suggest here.
CUBA HAS FOR several years had a promising therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer. The 55-year trade embargo led by the US made sure that Cuba was mostly where it stayed. Until—maybe—now.
Who would have thought it? If you read the detailed account of what this actually is, then it sounds like it may work as advertised too!
Medical researchers at the Center for Molecular Immunology worked on Cimavax for 25 years before the Ministry of Health made it available to the public—for free—in 2011. Each shot costs the government about $1. A Phase II trial from 2008 showed lung cancer patients who received the vaccine lived an average of four to six months longer than those who didn’t. That prompted Japan and some European countries to initiate Cimavax clinical trials as well.
The article goes on to note that the West already has things like this (They do??? Funny...My father died hard of Lung Cancer without a thing like this ever being hinted at?) so they aren't intererested in it for how Cuba is using it, but hoping to expand on it for other uses. Perhaps a full blown vaccination rather than immuno-stimulant for added life.
...and of course, we all know that Western Medicine wouldn't use this unless they could charge about 1000x markup per dose, and never give it out to anyone free. Oh heavens no.... Extending life is BIG BIG money and BIG profit ...or not, for those who can't afford to live.
And that drug isn’t the only one with potential in the Cuban pharmacopeia. Thomas Rothstein, a biologist at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, has for six years worked with the Center for Molecular Immunology on another vaccine to treat lung cancer called Racotumomab, with an entirely different mechanism.
Well, here is hoping that behind whatever dirty tricks and likely harmful motives our President has behind this move for unconditional forgiveness of...pretty much everyone it seems..some good may come of it. Perhaps places like Cuba will be able to share things they had to learn the hard way, before the "easy way" comes to define what they do too, and $1 doses to extend life 6 months become as much fantasy there as it would be to suggest here.
