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Hopes of melanoma breakthrough

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      • January 4, 2019 at 1:58 pm
      BrianP
      Participant

      "Although it has a promising survival rate of more than 90 per cent at five years, it still kills an estimated 1900 Australians every year, most of them men."

      What a ridiculous and incomplete statement!  A little more clarification on the survival rate would have been nice.

      Despite that shortfall pretty interesting subject.  One could imagine that is the reason so many like myself are living with stable disease.

      • January 4, 2019 at 3:41 pm
      ed williams
      Participant

      Nice article Caman, the person who wrote this might want to go back to 2014 and listen to this Dr. Allison ( ipi inventor- noble prize winner) presentation where he explains T-cells and how ipi works to block the CTLA-4 on the t-cell so the t-cell doesn't get shut off. Whole video is pretty good and eventually gets into pd-1 and how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyqvg2yyCzk

      • January 4, 2019 at 4:31 pm
      RichInLife2
      Participant

      Sounds promising. Of course, as with all mice studies, it’s very early. Here’s  link to the original article (with video) published by the Doherty Institute. 

      https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/news/researchers-discover-control-mechanism-for-melanoma-skin-cancer

       

        • January 5, 2019 at 1:32 am
        caman
        Participant

        You guys are a great source of info!!

      • January 5, 2019 at 2:21 pm
      sing123
      Participant

      Thanks for posting this promising news!

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