Reply #11: Oh, I didn't mean you specifically at all!

[SallyMander]

Just a general sentiment that I get here sometimes. I don't know about the specific study you've mentioned, sounds really interesting! I think part of the problem is that hopeful results get picked up and blasted out by the media -- and it's often really preliminary findings, like in studies with non-human animals. Then it takes a *really* long time to get permission to even begin trials in humans, and then that trial process takes a really long time, and then FDA approval takes a really long time... so you get the idea. ;)

And some forms of cancer are almost completely curable at this point -- i'm thinking of some childhood leukemias, for example, which have very high cure rates -- so i definitely think there's reason to be hopeful!

:hi: