I take back
all (well, most) of the bad things I have said about Texas. The Lone Star State may be the home of
quasi-whackos like Ted Cruz, but it also houses Rice University, seat of this
most valuable research.
It seems
that the Rice people have developed what the call a “drug factory”, more
accurately a way of implanting a source for little dollops of cancer drugs in
the peritoneum (think lining of your sack of guts). In the Rice experiments (involving mice, of
course) the drug was IL-2, which stimulates the white blood cells to do their
work. In the research reported this
method cured all of the mice with OVCA, and 7/8 of the little critters with
colorectal cancer! Damned promising
beginnings, for sure. Now to try it on
people. Keep your fingers crossed!
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-drug-factory-beads-can-wipe-out-some-cancers-in-mice
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