The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: sneakypete on May 07, 2020, 03:00:43 am
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A research scientist who is not connected to any drug company discovered a natural cure for SOME types of previously "incurable" strains of cancer was the subject of an episode of a show on PBS titled "Independent Lens" that aired tonight.
One cancer it cures is Lymphoma,which is what I have.
His name is Doctor Jim Allison,and he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery a couple of years ago. I don't know/remember when this show was filmed,but it seems to take a few years from trial end to production,to government approval,and finally,to patients.
I don't even pretend to understand what this means,but he discovered a way to modifie your body's own "T-Cells" to get them to kill the cancer cells without the patients ever having to take chemo or radiation,and they don't even get sick from it.
Not only that,but they seem to be "cured" after only a few treatments,and these were people in the FDA test that had had no hope of survival left so they became test suspects.
i highly recommend any of you who have cancer or knows someone who has cancer either find and record this program,or contact your local PBS station and buy it on CD.
I wish I could explain this better,but I still have chemo brain,and it's a real struggle to remember to get dressed before leaving the house. I wouldn't wish chemo on my worse enemy.
UPDATE!!!
BTW,I forgot to mention that the FDA has approved his treatment,and that there has already been several hundred thousand people cured of cancer in Europe and the US since the approval.
Including him.
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Don’t Miss “Jim Allison: Breakthrough†on PBS Tonight
Austin Monthly by David Leffler 4/27/2020
https://www.austinmonthly.com/dont-miss-jim-allison-breakthrough-on-pbs-tonight/ (https://www.austinmonthly.com/dont-miss-jim-allison-breakthrough-on-pbs-tonight/)
The documentary follows the unbelievable career of UT alum and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jim Allison, a trailblazing scientist from South Texas who took on the medical community and redefined cancer treatment.
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Don’t Miss “Jim Allison: Breakthrough†on PBS Tonight
The documentary follows the unbelievable career of UT alum and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jim Allison, a trailblazing scientist from South Texas who took on the medical community and redefined cancer treatment.
BY David Leffler
Published: April 27, 2020
In the mid-1960s, Jim Allison left his hometown of Alice, Texas—a tiny community just west of Corpus Christi—and arrived in Austin to study microbiology at UT, a life pursuit originally inspired by his 8th grade teacher. Though he didn’t know it at the time, the South Texas native had set out on a path that would make him one of medicine’s most daring figures and, eventually, a Nobel Prize winner who transformed cancer treatment across the world. Now, more than five decades later, Allison is the subject of a captivating documentary that shines a light on his revolutionary work and serves as an especially prescient reminder of the importance of science in the age of COVID-19.
Originally released last March at South by Southwest, Jim Allison: Breakthrough details the scientist’s relentless efforts to push past the medical establishment’s long-held approach to cancer treatment by exploring new ways to attack the disease by treating patients’ immune systems rather than their tumors. Over the past year, the film has been screened to more than 100,000 people around the world, receiving rave reviews from outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post along the way. Now, the groundbreaking documentary is set to reach viewers across America when it airs on PBS’ Independent Lens tonight at 9 p.m.
Filmmaker Bill Haney, who worked closely with Allison to create the documentary (along with Woody Harrelson, who serves as its narrator), says Breakthrough provides an intimate look at a renegade scientist’s miraculous journey from small-town Texas to the peak of the medicine world. “One of the things that’s so great about this story is Jim’s resilience. He’s not just a gifted scientist: He was brave, bold, and willing to stand up for ideas that, at the time, were widely rejected by many of his peers,†Haney says. “This is a uniquely American story, because the kid from the backwoods of Alice, Texas, rising to the 2018 Nobel Prize is something you just can’t make up.â€
More at link.
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@Elderberry @EdinVA
Thanks,guys!
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Damn it. I know I’m being selfish but I’d give anything to have my best friend still with me. He didn’t stop fighting until the last 80 or so hours of his life.
I hope someday, hopefully soon, cancer will be as gone as smallpox and other things. Especially children’s cancers.
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Damn it. I know I’m being selfish but I’d give anything to have my best friend still with me. He didn’t stop fighting until the last 80 or so hours of his life.
I hope someday, hopefully soon, cancer will be as gone as smallpox and other things. Especially children’s cancers.
@Gefn
Amen,amen,AMEN! Ain't nothing sadder than seeing a child dying from cancer.
Except maybe the look in the parents eyes.
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@Gefn
Amen,amen,AMEN! Ain't nothing sadder than seeing a child dying from cancer.
Except maybe the look in the parents eyes.
True, that.