• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    By the time I get cancer, it’s already going to be cured! That wasn’t the plan though, time to start smoking.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah but it’s generally a good metric for how it will work in humans and leukemia is really tough to treat. Seems promising.

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          7 months ago

          Lol. Bad day in the onco lab? I’m confused because most markers, immune responses and other induced responses present the exact fucking same in mice and humans. When these treatments work in humans it’s almost always identical to the way it worked in the oncology mice. Hence why we use them.

          And because they always have cancer. But that’s fucked up ethics stuff.

          What’s your experience?

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        7 months ago

        It’s because there is no single entity like cancer. In fact every organ or rather every cell type can develop various vastly diferent kinds of “cancers”.

        It’s like using a word for all mental health issues, let’s say menzy. And then there is a new promising drug for a manic episode in bipolar disorder but only without psychotic symptoms and the headline says: new promising treatment against menzy.