So how spooky is this. Researchers are now looking at using vaccine preventable diseases (including measles, mumps, rubella, polio and more) to treat cancer! "Hold on now", you say. "I thought viruses were bad, nay terrible evil beings whose sole purpose in life is to seek out and destroy the human race?" Alas the holes in the story. "Measles KILLS! Measles CURES!"
So far I have found measles being used to treat ovarian cancer "Scientists...engineered the measles virus to attack tumor cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, and then tested the new strain in cancer patients in a phase I clinical trial, which showed the treatment to be safe and well-tolerated." (benchmarks.cancer.gov/2011/06/measl...)
Measles being known to cure cancer "“The cancer-killing properties of measles virus have previously been reported by researchers at the Mayo Clinic,” says Dr. Richardson, professor of microbiology & immunology and paediatrics with Dal and the IWK Health Centre." (www.dal.ca/news/2011/09/01/an-unexp...)
Use of attenuated paramyxoviruses for cancer therapy. "virotherapy in combination with immunosuppressive drugs (cyclophosphamide); retargeting of viruses to specific tumor types or tumor vasculature; using infected cell carriers to protect and deliver the virus to tumors; and genetic manipulation of the virus to increase viral spread and/or express transgenes during viral replication. Transgenes have enabled noninvasive imaging or tracking of viral gene expression and enhancement of tumor destruction. www.medify.com/insights/article/210...
And a paper that says "Under the right circumstances, viruses are capable of targeting and destroying cancer cells in human cancer patients....With the advent of genetic engineering and biotechnology, a wide range of viruses are being manipulated and evaluated in various types of cancers. "(www.givetolife.org/mike/Presentatio...)
So the "healing" properties of these viruses are only "acceptable" when they have been genetically modified? Are we really expected to believe this? Or do we simply have a case of nature yet again being manipulated for proprietary gain?!!? We have diseases being eradicated, cancer rising, and then those same diseases used to cure cancer?! Is this not friggin nuts?? Viruses cause cancer. Oh, no, wait, they kill cancer. So which is it? Can't have both. And its just far too convenient that these viruses will only prevent disease (or treat it) when they have been manipulated, to otherwise make it patentable. (AKA Profitable.)
Isn't it ironic that most vaccine preventable diseases are now being used or studied to cure cancer? I find this to be far too coincidental and for me, further evidence that nature knows best, and viruses, bacteria, germs and dis-ease all serve a purpose. They knew in the 1970's what was happening, but didn't do any further studies for 20 years!
"In the 1970s, measles infections were observed to cause regression of pre-existing cancer tumors in children. This information was noted, but nothing was done to study this phenomenon until the late 1990s, when under the direction of Stephen Russell, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic Cancer Center's Molecular Medicine Program began looking into it, resulting in the current study and other related projects." psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006...
"In the 1970s, it was reported that natural infection with the measles virus (MV) led to spontaneous regression of hematologic cancers in African children. This and other, similar reports led to investigations of the oncolytic, or cancer-fighting, properties of MV and other viruses and their potential in cancer treatment."www.mayoclinic.org/medicalprofs/mea...
"As early as the 1970s, spontaneous clinical remissions were observed in patients suffering from hematological cancers after natural infection with wild-type (wt) MV" www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/2/2/587/pdf
Why? Because of limitations on technology? Or because no corporation is interested in studying (and investing in) something that occurs naturally and therefore cannot be "owned" as intellectucal property.
Some more sources:
"RNA viruses as virotherapy agents.
Further refinement and optimization of these oncolytic agents can be achieved through virus engineering. This article provides a summary of the current status of oncolytic virotherapy efforts for seven different RNA viruses, namely, mumps, Newcastle disease virus, measles virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, influenza, reovirus, and poliovirus. " www.medify.com/insights/article/125...
My mind has just been officially blown. So why are we not looking at the importance of these diseases then? Instead we call them all dangerous and deadly, when with most of them (80% to 95%) don't even present symptoms, depending on the virus and the person. Why? Because there is no money to be made in children growing into cancer free adults because of something nature does on its own. You can't patent something that is not novel or innovative (meaning new or modified).
In nature, there is always an important symbiosis that we generally have no clue about until it is too late! Here is an analogy that could illustrate this cancer/virus connection:
~ Some family friends bought a house with some nasty basement spiders
~ They decided to exterminate the spiders
~ Two years later they discover termites are destrying the house!!!!
~ So they BRING BACK the spiders, to eliminate the termites.
~ The spiders were only an inconveinence, but when removed, the house could have EASILY been destroyed in a matter of time. So they brought them back. Sounds a lot more like an analogy to this VPDs to cure cancer...
SYMBIOTIC relationships exist and serve a purpose, and what evidence do we really have to suggest that there ISN'T a purpose to contracting disease - including avoiding cancer. I can't imagine thinking I know better than nature....
One final source:
(Year 1994) "The human mumps virus (which is related to the avian NDV) was reported to have an oncolytic effect on sarcomas in rats (75). Subsequently, in an uncontrolled trial, inoculation of wild-type live mumps virus into 90 terminally ill cancer patients reportedly produced a "very good" or "good" response in 79 of the patients, without causing ill effects (5). In addition, some association between measles infection and remission of human leukemia has been reported (6). However, rigorously controlled trials using on- colytic viruses to treat specific human tumors have not been performed." jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/...
I can't emphasize this enough. They knew for 20 years! Why no controlled trials?? That's the biggest hole of them all...
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