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Putting the brakes on metastatic cancer (ualberta.ca)
104 points by pera on June 21, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Very good news. My dad died from cancer in 1990, and a good friend’s mother just got cleared after a pretty long set of radiation treatments. Anything that improves survival rates and decreases the effects on the body that are experienced through radiation and chemotherapy are very welcome.


The lead researcher here is the CSO of Oisin Biotechnologies, a company using programmable suicide gene therapy to kill senescent and cancerous cells. He is pretty productive.


Let me guess... 1% of the time, it works 99.5% of the time?




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