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Cancer drug made 20,000 times more potent in breakthrough
Tony Barkhttps://www.newsweek.com/cancer-drug-made-20000-times-more-potent-in-breakthrough-10989841
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A common cancer drug has been restructured to make its cancer cell killing abilities up to 20,000 times more effective while also reducing its toxicity
far more powerful and targeted—leaving healthy cells unharmed.
The new drug entered leukemia cells 12.5 times more efficiently, killed them up to 20,000 times more effectively and reduced cancer progression 59-fold. This was all without detectable side effects, according to the researchers.
It has only been tested in animals thus far, but wow
DiplomjodlerI’ve watched a documentary called “I am Legend”, so i know what happens next.
Who is designing drugs for cancer? What about drugs for the patients?
Midnight WolfSmh equal opportunities, gotta give the cancer a chance in this fast-paced agile hustlin world of today.
I’m just waiting for the next article which says one of the potential side effects is that patients might dissolve into a puddle of goo.
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KorkkiThere are always a lot of good news. The goods news just don’t make ‘good news’ for the news companies. Nobody wants to read that x metric is slightly better now, disaster was averted, or slight progress was made in world changing new technology. That doesn’t sell subscriptions or bait clicks.
Additionally, not all the good news ends up panning out. They might find later that this has significant other negative effects.
LexamSo fentanyl for cancer!? RFK better get to stopping this.
What does “it killed cancer cells up to 20000 times more effectively” mean? Genuinely asking because in my mind it’s ethier dead or its not. The other stats make some amount of sense to me but I can’t figure out what this one is saying.
You can read the article and the study, but presumably a single dose kills that many more cancer cells.
I read the article it never clarifies this point. It also doesn’t link to a study as it reads like its just an interview about an ongoing study. Your interpretation makes sense though.
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5FU is a very common chemo for a variety of cancer types. Increasing it’s effacacy while reducing side effects would be a major win.
Why are we wasting money on getting cancer cells high? Like, shouldn’t we be killing them?
Big Ken M energy.
When the cells are high they dont see the treatment coming and are easily overwhelmed.
That’s certainly great news! So… How many millions of dollars is a dose going to cost?
At least one banana and some duct tape should cover it..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ggSVPIsIOOg
“It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”
Checks the current price of bananas
Welp. I guess I still can’t afford it.
My chemo cost AUD$28,000 a month for two years (but as an Australian citizen I didn’t pay that much). So either more than that or as much as the drug companies can gouge, or both.
I suppose “the alternative to buying my product is death” is a rather effective business strategy.
I’m so lucky to have had cancer in Australia and not the USA.
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To stay in your example: if something has a success rate of killing 1% of all cancer cells (which would not be very effective) , it fails at 99% of all cells.
A factor 20,000 imrovement would mean 0,99^20000 = 5.056988325166235*^-88 failure rate, which would effectively mean complete success in destroying cancer cells.
Alas I’m sure there’s a different math behind that increase in effectiveness.
Sounds like better targeting. Have you read the article?
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Sounds like the 20k number is in vitro. (In a glass dish with cell cultures). In mice its 59 times more effective as without the targeting improvement. The targeting improvement seems to be specially developed for blood cancer (leukemia). Not a doctor, taking out of my ass.