How many times in the last 10 years have we gone bananas on HN for an immunotherapy wonder drug just to find it’s another casualty of the current unable-to-reproduce crisis in current science?
Remember when CD47 monoclonal antibodies from the Stanford trials were going to save millions of lives? What a time to be not yet dead that was.
The poster above is correct. Wanting this to be something wonderful doesn’t make it so, and anyone familiar with the subject matter knows this deserves skepticism. This is getting upvoted because it sounds good, not because there’s solid evidence it has legs.
I’d love for this to become a high efficacy treatment for millions of people, but we’ve had the same thing play out so many times now that it’s impossible to be excited.
This is what usually happens:
They’ll try it in the lab, and it’ll kill cancer.
They’ll inject it in mice, and it’ll kill cancer.
They’ll try it on people, and it’ll reduce the size of their tumors for six-to-eight weeks before they start growing again.
I’ll remember to check back in a year to to see if this is even still a thing.
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