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NEW BREAKTHROUGH IN NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA TREATMENT
There’s new hope for patients suffering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – the sixth most common form of cancer in Australia.
Researchers at the Gold Coast’s Griffith University Campus are working on a treatment that targets only cancer cells.
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Excellent!!!
I think that it should not take 5 to 7 years to determine if this treatment really works. I recently heard about a man who had an ear infection in one of his ears. Doctors tried all of their usual treatments to cure the infection but nothing worked. So the gentleman went home and took some earwax from his healthy ear and put it into his infected ear and it cured the ear in a matter days. Based on this case, a medical study was commissioned but was soon stopped because the earwax transplant cure rate was near perfect. I also strongly believe that men like this gentleman, who have lived and learned to think outside the box when solving problems, should be involved in medical research and in medical studies. Doctors and researchers are wonderful, gifted, and hard working, but their training and practices are extremely rigorous and stilted. Also, they are few when compared to their patient population. Their very, very, patient population. Some people, like the gentleman with the ear infection, are very smart and their experiences in their work has turned them into very gifted problem solvers. We need more problem solvers. My question is, how do we involve these gifted problem solvers, these experienced ladies and gentlemen from non-medical fields or trades, in the medical research and study field? Answer that and we will cure cancer and most other disease.
This is fantastic news, but what about patients like my partner, who has NHL and was told only last week that after 9 months of chemo treatments, that his cancer has turned terminal, and that there is nothing else they medical staff can do, and have given him 2 months to 2 years to live……..we need this treatment so desperately
Why does it have to take 5-7 years? lets start trials today and I will put my hand up for crack at life? In 5-7 years how many amazing people are we going to lose because some company hasn’t bought the drug yet to profit from?