The fact that this is not specific to a certain type of cancer is quite amazing.
This paragraph captures it pretty well:
"In collaboration, the two university research groups have tested thousands of samples from brain tumors to leukemias and a general picture emerges to indicate that the malaria protein is able attack more than 90% of all types of tumors. The drug has been tested on mice that were implanted with three types of human tumours. With non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treated mice’s tumours were about a quarter the size of the tumours in the control group. With prostate cancer, the tumours disappeared in two of the six treated mice a month after receiving the first dose. With metastatic bone cancer, five out of six of the treated mice were alive after almost eight weeks, compared to none of the mice in a control group."
The first link you provided seems related, in the sense that the OP link is what was sought after in the linked submission.
University of Copenhagen says University of Copenhagen researchers are on the verge of a breakthrough. In other news, University of Copenhagen researcher reported, by his mother, to be brilliant and charming.
I'm probably being unfair, but I cannot get excited about "coming soon" cancer news anymore. Unless it concerns a treatment that is curing large numbers of people already, I relegate it to the "Incurable Optimism" drawer, along with the stories of diabetes breakthroughs, and new methods for reversing Male Pattern Baldness.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10342677
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:thesun.co.uk+new+cancer...
This paragraph captures it pretty well:
"In collaboration, the two university research groups have tested thousands of samples from brain tumors to leukemias and a general picture emerges to indicate that the malaria protein is able attack more than 90% of all types of tumors. The drug has been tested on mice that were implanted with three types of human tumours. With non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the treated mice’s tumours were about a quarter the size of the tumours in the control group. With prostate cancer, the tumours disappeared in two of the six treated mice a month after receiving the first dose. With metastatic bone cancer, five out of six of the treated mice were alive after almost eight weeks, compared to none of the mice in a control group."
The first link you provided seems related, in the sense that the OP link is what was sought after in the linked submission.
I'm probably being unfair, but I cannot get excited about "coming soon" cancer news anymore. Unless it concerns a treatment that is curing large numbers of people already, I relegate it to the "Incurable Optimism" drawer, along with the stories of diabetes breakthroughs, and new methods for reversing Male Pattern Baldness.