Possible cancer killer needs funding

SeanDoe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9508895/A-virus-that-kills-cancer-the-cure-thats-waiting-in-the-coldc.html

Im surprised this hasn't been getting the attention it needs,ground breaking research left to rot because of money yet again.
Seriously what's £1million,when the population of the EU is 600million!!
Even if it failed it would be worth a look no??
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El_Dangeroso

Mice are not humans. There are a lot of things that entirely cure diseases in mice that do feck all in humans. The first five times you see this happen you get a little more skeptical of 'miracle' cures that the press are so fond of prematurely touting.

Someone recently replicated 53 of the 'landmark' pre-clinical trials and could only replicate 6 of them.

There is loads of funding there for non-commercial clinical trials, they are expensive, but not overwhelmingly so, a little pilot trial that could be used to gain funding and research momentum would cost less than €50,000 in an academic facility.

Either this researcher's results are not as convincing as they are made out to be or else he cannot write a grant application very well at all.

Condo131

I agree 100% with El_Dangeroso. Apparently this guy didn't patent his work and published everything, so, according to one article, there is no profit to be made.

I've come across so many "magic bullet" Cancer killers/cures/"patents that the drug companises don't want you to know about". The hype about this one looks much the same. I'd *LOVE* to see a cure for Cancer, but this one doesn't appear to have much below the surface.

...............a Cancer survivor's view.

AtomicHorror

Also the "can't patent therefore nobody will touch it" argument doesn't hold much water. We're still seeing large scale randomized trial being conducted on aspirin nearly a century after it's patent expired. Pharma companies aren't the only groups that can sponsor these sorts of studies.

El_Dangeroso

AtomicHorror wrote: »

Also the "can't patent therefore nobody will touch it" argument doesn't hold much water. We're still seeing large scale randomized trial being conducted on aspirin nearly a century after it's patent expired. Pharma companies aren't the only groups that can sponsor these sorts of studies.

Absolutely, there has never been more funding available to academics.. something about this is not right.

opinion guy

If he needs funding just crowd source it:

http://scifundchallenge.org/

michelleD

You had a point, but I think it's much better to use mice as subject for experiment that humans.