Two days after the Russian rebellion, the surprise is that the news media was actually on top of all the action. You would have thought that the absence of any kind of reliable information from that country would suppress "the truth." First, earlier today, released was an 11-minute audio by the leader of revolt as defiant as ever. Then, later at night, a 5-minute address to his nation by Vladimir Putin, where he essentially reinforced what I thought was the reality.
Essentially, there was this revolt led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group (about 40,000 mercenaries), which ended in a compromise arranged by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko. Certainly, this exposed Putin as vulnerable, and no matter what was decided, places Prigozhin as enemy #1 to Putin. What is the future? Stay tuned.
It is not popularly known, but there are already decades-old hepatitis B vaccines to prevent liver cancer, and HPV vaccines, introduced in 2006, to prevent cervical cancer. A typical case is Jamie Crase who was 34 when she thought she would die young with ovarian cancer. However, she is now 50 and has no sign of cancer.
- Unfortunately, this initial injection will only shrink tumors and prevent cancer from returning, not prevent it.
- Experimental treatments will come for lung and breast cancer, with melanoma and pancreatic cancer to follow.
- Early efforts will be for something relatively specific, like a noninvasive breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ.
The medication will boost our immune system to kill cancer cells using that same platform for COVID-19 vaccines, mRNA.- Like in teaching T cells to combat covid, the cancer vaccine will do the same to fight tumors.
Moderna and Merck are jointly developing a personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma. From early notices, these vaccines will be expensive because each one will need to be made from scratch, unlike for covid, which ended up costing pennies/shot.
There is a failed history.
- First, Provenge was approved in the U.S. in 2010 to treat prostate, bladder and skin cancer.
- Cancer overcame this treatment.
- But medical researchers learned a lot from this failure.
A few months ago Moderna reported it hopes to offer new vaccines also for heart disease and other conditions by 2030, which is only 7 years away. All are also based on messenger RNA technology. And the irony of all ironies is that COVID remarkably will show researchers the way to a whole host of other more significant cures!
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