Cancer Cure

MagicSean · 13-04-2010 06:24PM #1

OMG. Cork has cured cancer. We'll never hear the end of this. It'll probably be linked to Roy Keane in some way.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0413/cancer.html

bazmaiden · 13-04-2010 06:26PM

I have heard claims like this before, but I do hope it works and is succesful

dlofnep · 13-04-2010 06:27PM

It's just for treatment - Does that constitute as a cure?

TheZohanS · 13-04-2010 06:28PM

k_mac wrote: »

OMG. Cork has cured cancer. We'll never hear the end of this. It'll probably be linked to Roy Keane in some way.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0413/cancer.html

Why such a snide remark for a topic so serious?

Article for those that have a genuine interest:

Scientists at a Cork research centre claim they may have found a better way of treating cancer than chemotherapy, instead using bacteria commonly found in pro-biotic yoghurt.
Their breakthrough has been hailed as being at the cutting-edge of science by an international expert in the treatment of cancer.
The Cork Cancer Research Centre was set up ten years ago to develop treatments for secondary cancer and scientists there say they have found that bacteria commonly found in pro-biotic yoghurt can carry cancer-killing genes from the gut to grow inside cancerous tumours elsewhere in the body, where they pump out anti-cancer agents as they grow.

Fago! · 13-04-2010 06:29PM

Feckin langballs!

Fair play to them.

MagicSean · 13-04-2010 06:31PM

TheZohan wrote: »

Why such a snide remark for a topic so serious?

Article for those that have a genuine interest:

Why so serious for a subject which should bring joy? Why be on AH forum if you can't have fun?

Ghost Train · 13-04-2010 06:31PM

dlofnep wrote: »

It's just for treatment - Does that constitute as a cure?

Yop

kowloon · 13-04-2010 06:32PM

The yoghurt companies will use this to back up their dubious claims though. Actimel science my ****.

mike65 · 13-04-2010 06:33PM

The Daily Mail will no doubt lead with this tomorrow and then tell you why it'll kill you on Thursday...

NoQuarter · 13-04-2010 06:34PM

their all a load of mullers down there if ya ask me!

L.Jenkins · 13-04-2010 06:36PM

kowloon wrote: »

The yoghurt companies will use this to back up their dubious claims though. Actimel science my ****.

It will be a field day for the yogurt companies, "A yogurt a day keeps cancer away! Uggh ya, lets flog this one until its dead!"

opinion guy · 13-04-2010 06:37PM

k_mac wrote: »

Why so serious for a subject which should bring joy? Why be on AH forum if you can't have fun?

Don't f**k with TheZohan !!

Calm down people - it will 5 to 10 years before this hits the clinics (all going well)

The Volt · 13-04-2010 06:40PM

Is Cork cancer the same as regular cancer?

My name is URL · 13-04-2010 06:49PM

It's always good to hear about breakthroughs in cancer treatment. The same group also published info about what they claim is a vaccine for Prostate Cancer back in Feb - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0205/1224263813942.html

biko · 13-04-2010 06:57PM

I hope it's available by the time I get cancer from my smoking.

cafecolour · 13-04-2010 06:57PM

So what's the ultimate cancer fighting meal now? Chopped cabbage and broccoli covered with yogurt and flavored with turmeric?

SugarHigh · 13-04-2010 07:01PM

cafecolour wrote: »

So what's the ultimate cancer fighting meal now? Chopped cabbage and broccoli covered with yogurt and flavored with turmeric?

No one has claimed pro-biotic yoghurt will cure cancer.

The article say's that it could be used to transport a cancer killing agent.

MagicSean · 13-04-2010 07:03PM

SugarHigh wrote: »

No one has claimed pro-biotic yoghurt will cure cancer.

The article say's that it could be used to transport a cancer killing agent.

I still see a dramatic increase in the consumption of yoghurt coming our way. Id buy shares in yoplait if I knew how.

Nulty · 13-04-2010 07:04PM

Ghost Train wrote: »

Yop

You might be onto something there -

I drink Yop and I don't have cancer, maybe its a preventive cure?

SugarHigh · 13-04-2010 07:06PM

Didn't cancer overtake heart disease as being the biggest killer in the world?

With heart surgery advancing very quickly recently(There are robots being developed that can perform heart surgery) and cancer getting better treatment this will make over population an even bigger threat.

It sounds ****ed up to think of it that way but it's true that people need to die.

GLaDOS · 13-04-2010 07:09PM

SugarHigh wrote: »

Didn't cancer overtake heart disease as being the biggest killer in the world?

In the first world, they aren't as much of an issue in poorer countries because people don't tend to live long enough to get them.

sam34 · 13-04-2010 07:12PM

Possible cancer breakthrough in Cork

Scientists at a Cork research centre claim they may have found a better way of treating cancer than chemotherapy, instead using bacteria commonly found in pro-biotic yoghurt.

two very important words highlighted above!

citizen_p · 13-04-2010 07:13PM

itll be like "i am legend", just based in cork

sock puppet · 13-04-2010 07:17PM

SugarHigh wrote: »

Didn't cancer overtake heart disease as being the biggest killer in the world?

With heart surgery advancing very quickly recently(There are robots being developed that can perform heart surgery) and cancer getting better treatment this will make over population an even bigger threat.

It sounds ****ed up to think of it that way but it's true that people need to die.

It's not a problem if all you're concerned about is population. People will live longer, leading to a once off increase in the Earth's population. And that's assuming that people in the developing world will have access to these treatments, which they almost certainly won't. Then you have to consider that most people who get cancer are old and therefore unable to reproduce, so an increase in the number of elderly people would have no effect on the birthrate.

MagicSean · 13-04-2010 07:18PM

sam34 wrote: »

two very important words highlighted above!

Buzzkiller

Mister men · 13-04-2010 07:25PM

If it's for real it great news and if not well great to know they are doing their upmost down in Cork to help find a better treatment. Fair play to the langers.

kowloon · 13-04-2010 07:41PM

cafecolour wrote: »

So what's the ultimate cancer fighting meal now? Chopped cabbage and broccoli covered with yogurt and flavored with turmeric?

I wonder about these cancer preventative foods and diets. Maybe cancer would be a welcome change of pace after a month on a health diet.

MaybeLogic · 13-04-2010 07:47PM

In the 1945 book 'The Water of Life', J.W. Armstrong claimed to cure cancer by getting his patients to drink only pure water and all of their own urine.
The cancer usually disappeared inside a few weeks, he claimed.

Edit: In fact, he claims this will cure whatever ails you.

Unless he was taking the piss.

SugarHigh · 13-04-2010 07:52PM

sock puppet wrote: »

It's not a problem if all you're concerned about is population. People will live longer, leading to a once off increase in the Earth's population. And that's assuming that people in the developing world will have access to these treatments, which they almost certainly won't. Then you have to consider that most people who get cancer are old and therefore unable to reproduce, so an increase in the number of elderly people would have no effect on the birthrate.

If the birthrate remains the same and the death rate goes down then population increases.

orourkeda · 13-04-2010 08:34PM

Voltwad wrote: »

Is Cork cancer the same as regular cancer?

Corkness is a cancer.

Pyridine · 13-04-2010 08:36PM

Is Cork and its people not a cancer anyway!?

So their cure should be to let themselves float into the middle of the atlantic. That way they can be the capital of who gives a sh*t!!!

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