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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:07PM (#36979105)
All you have to do is add "... in rats" to most headlines of this nature, and it will tell you all you need to know, at least for the moment.
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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by entropy273 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:39PM (#36979414)
Sounds like there’s human trials in motion already?
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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by adamredwoods on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:49AM (#36981890)
Yes.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...

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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by TylerE on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:20PM (#36979246)
Rats is probably an improvement over the usual mice. Rats actually naturally have very cancer rates… in captivity rats live an absolute max of 2 years, and about 80% of them will die because of some sort of cancer. In the wild it’s less so, but only because the average lifespan is less than a year (predation, traps, etc).
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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by emptysongglass on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:59PM (#36981202)
Rats do not live an absolute max of 2 years in captivity.
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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by drtgh on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:39AM (#36984374)
He refers to the objective fact that the rodent veterinary field is making great advances, while human medicine continues to stagnate, as the cross of the time have shown rodent treatments hardly ever works in humans.
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Re:New targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors i... by Tao3300 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:22PM (#36980601)
You can usually add that or "in California" on all the bad and dangerous stuff.
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