Cancer

[Nightfoot92]

Just the other day when I was swimming in a pool, and thinking about that kid who was 15 and found a way to detect pancreatic cancer, I kind of had an epiphany moment. What if, instead of us trying to cure cancer with man made medicines, we got the immune system to attack them instead? What if we reprogram our own natural defenses to recognize cancer as a threat? Without doing any sort of research on the topic, would this be a viable idea?
How does the immune system identify threats?
What does cancer make cells stop producing?'
Can white blood cells destroy cancer cells or are they consumed by it?

[NoraBrimstone]

You mean like this?

[One Above All]

AFAIK the immune system already attacks cancer cells; hence paraneoplastic syndrome.

[Nightfoot92]

Meh, well at least I came up with the idea on my own. Didn't know that studies
Were being done on it. I thought that it might have been a revolutionary idea, but it isn't

[NoraBrimstone]

Don't be sad. You were trying to think up stuff that could save lives. The fact that the experts already thought of it is neiher here nor there. :-)

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Don't be sad. You were trying to think up stuff that could save lives. The fact that the experts already thought of it is neiher here nor there. :-)

Agreed. Kudos to you for just 'thinking'

[LastPoet]

Meh, well at least I came up with the idea on my own. Didn't know that studies
Were being done on it. I thought that it might have been a revolutionary idea, but it isn't

Don't be too hard on yourself, study on, mabe you can have a revolutionary one yet. It is one of the few truly free features humans have: To have ideas

[Nightfoot92]

Thanks guys.

[frankiej]

Now get back in that swimming pool and think harder!!!!!