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CANCER secret CRACKED

news.com.au — Australian scientists are hoping to cure leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged - and have found a way to stop its deadly process.

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  • coinman987, on 08/11/2008, -7/+102I've read the article and I wish they would've elaborated on how a possible cure for leukemia could also treat asthma. If I'm not mistaken leukemia is a form of cancer of the blood and asthma is a chronic disease that affects the airways. Nevertheless, interesting article, I hope this works out.
    • BoneheadFarker, on 08/11/2008, -0/+44FTFA:

      "The GM-CSF hormone - which controls the production of blood cells in the body - works by attaching itself to the receptor proteins, which then send a message into white blood cells telling them to multiply.

      When damaged, the protein's messages cause an over-production of cells or cells which persist too long, resulting in diseases such as leukaemia as well as some inflammatory conditions"

      The same mechinism that causes luekemia can also cause inflammation. Asthma is a chronic inflammation of the respiratory system. I'm just hoping that this can be linked to Crohn's Disease too...
    • Alegoo92, on 08/11/2008, -9/+2I know.. cancer is like auto-immune since blood cells attack the body, right? Asthma is an environment-triggered reaction where the airways get clogged with mucus and such..
      • kerrle, on 08/11/2008, -1/+7No, actually. The incidents are environmentally triggered, but the underlying reason that asthmatics respond that way while others are fine are immune related. Asthma, psoriasis, and some forms of arthritis are very closely related, and would all potentially benefit from this type of approach.
      • 10scott10, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3so the cure does not really have to do with any break through in cancer, but rather a break-through in immunology
      • docbob84, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0Leukemia IS immunology, in the same way that a breakthrough in brain tumors would involve cancer AND neurology. All the fields of medicine interweave like that.
    • ngmcs8203, on 08/11/2008, -0/+35Just as to elaborate a little, not all forms of leukemia are non-curable. I was diagnosed with ALL at the age of 3, went into remission at 8 and was labeled cured at 11.
      • taikahn, on 08/11/2008, -0/+13I love hearing positive stuff like this. Thanks for the post.
      • rotten777, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8Congrats! I beat Ewings Sarcoma at 12 y.o. :)
    • vbullinger, on 08/11/2008, -13/+1Cancer was already cured a long time ago. No one's listening: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190 ...
    • xaogypsie, on 08/11/2008, -0/+25Leukemia is a blood cancer, a mutation found in the bone marrow. In my case, the mutated cells releases a protein (ABL protein, I think) that kicks the bone marrow into overproduction mode for white blood cells. This ends up forcing mutated white blood cells into the bloodstream, packs the bonemarrow full, and eventually immature white blood cells start overtaking the blood. Nasty way to die.

      Although I am not curable by chemo/medication (and might not survive a transplant), they are able to use a chemo drug that inhibits that protein. It does other stuff, but I don't really understand it all. Basically, I'll live a normal life with leukemia, as if it were diabetes (ie needs to be watched and controlled).
    • jtbell04, on 08/11/2008, -1/+27Cancer will just come out with a patch that will render the crack useless.
      • TypeEE, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Don't worry, there is an ultimate cancer cure thet get digg up once a month, the next one will patch this cancer.
    • Pullstem, on 08/11/2008, -12/+0THERE IS A CURE FOR CANCER, WITH THE POWER OF HERBS!!!
      GOOGLE/YOUTUBE: DR. SEBI

      DRSEBI.COM
      • bdfariello, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1From Futurama, "Crimes of the Hot"

        Random guy: I've got a degree in homeopathic medicine!
        Civil Defense Van: You've got a degree in baloney!
    • amoeba, on 08/11/2008, -4/+1RTFA
  • Roryking, on 08/11/2008, -15/+1043CRACKED: The 8 Most Hilarious Cancer Treatments of All Time
    • realn0whereman, on 08/11/2008, -5/+164yeah cancer has been cured 20 times already... my favorite are the 2 AM infomercials of how broccoli and garlic can cure it.... with the purchase of a recipe book, that includes the cure for cancer when you cook the vegetables in a secret way that has been passed down from jesus himself.
      • IUAndar, on 08/11/2008, -2/+6I think George Carlin's remedy for cancer was broccoli....oh and cauliflower for the big cancers.

        yup. Broccoli and cauliflower.
    • 64705, on 08/11/2008, -12/+48That almost sounds like a MrBabyMan submitted article.
    • tdelet, on 08/11/2008, -20/+45Except if it comes from CRACKED.COM it will be as funny as cancer.
      • Lephisto, on 08/11/2008, -34/+5Hey maybe you should develop cancer and see how funny it is.
      • mKdiR, on 08/11/2008, -10/+50***** you, cracked is hilarious
      • fatb0y42, on 08/11/2008, -3/+10Then cancer must be pretty ***** hilarious.
      • xister, on 08/11/2008, -9/+31Hey buddy, I had two friends that died from cancer!



        Awww, that doesn't really work...
      • im2emo4myshrt, on 08/11/2008, -19/+2***** you! Two of my friends died from cancer!
      • Patori, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2You can cure cancer? No, I can't, sir!
      • betheturtle, on 08/11/2008, -3/+3@xister;

        hey, pal, I'm not your buddy!
      • rowjimmy, on 08/12/2008, -2/+1isn't funny when you reply directly beneath a person. even less funny when you have to reference their post. just stop it.
      • BertEatsDirt, on 08/12/2008, -2/+1What did the deaf, mute & blind kid get for Christmas? Cancer!
      • xister, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1@betheturtle

        hey, don't pal me, buddy. I'll buddy you if I want to... Pal!
    • geniuswaitress, on 08/11/2008, -3/+28I confess that I only clicked this article because I thought it had something to do with CRACKED.
    • MasterThief117, on 08/11/2008, -0/+12I hear putting bengay on your balls works.
      • gobbstopp, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6worst high-school soccer practice of my life..
      • Guardiandevil91, on 08/11/2008, -1/+10***** you, two of my friends died from putting bengay on their balls.
      • rowjimmy, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1tiger-balm + thick comforter.
        dear god i'm thankful i wasn't that kid at summer camp.
      • PokerGigolo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0Yeah, it's all fun and games until your high school girlfriend handcuffs you to a bed and slathers your junk with icy hot. Man, what a bitch.
    • crestfall, on 08/11/2008, -3/+18(pic)
      #1. NAME OF TREATMENT
      (pic)
      Brief Description
      (pic)
      Why Frankenstein's monster wouldn't have allowed its use.
      (small pic)
      #2. NAME OF TREATMENT
      (pic)
      Brief Description
      (pic)
      How zombies prevented its use.
      (small pic)
      #3. NAME OF TREATMENT
      (pic)
      Brief Description
      (pic)
      How Mothra destroyed it.

      etc...
      • NotedFuturist, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3And the over the top, 13 year old's over usage of the F'bomb in all caps in every other paragraph.
      • scubaman5000, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5...go on
    • OomBok, on 08/11/2008, -29/+2***** you 2 of my friends died from cancer
      • MrSweets, on 08/11/2008, -2/+7Unfunny memes combined with a disease that kills 1500 people a day. Wow.
      • internetcoward, on 08/11/2008, -2/+3***** you 2 of my friends died from cracked.com
      • Handonam, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1WHY THE HELL are people still using this meme when it will always get dugg down.
    • spvn, on 08/12/2008, -8/+5no seriously, ***** y'all. I'm typing this right now with an asthma attack going on and every breath takes an effort. my friends even thought i was angry with them cuz i wasnt talking to them, when in fact i was just trying to focus on breathing because it takes so much effort. So any hope of curing my illness, im looking out for it. stop making unfunny jokes about how cancer keeps getting cured. Those with cancer are even more hopeful when they see stuff like that. So for those of you who dont have asthma or cancer or some currently untreatable disease, shut the ***** up please, for the sake of the rest of us.
      • Thestormo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3Yes, it must feel great so see your disease is cured then have all your hopes crushed. Wouldn't it be even more meaningful if the articles were actually true when they were posted and not merely hyperboles?

        Cancer doesn't have a cure, and the title should not state such. Cancer is a complex disease that is far more complicated than a single 'fix' or 'cure' can deal with.

        What I am getting at is:
        False hope is worse than no hope. At least with no hope you can deal with the reality of the situation.
      • WheezyMustafa, on 08/12/2008, -0/+6I have asthma too, and I hope they find a cure for it, but I'm not being a whiny bitch about it. :p
      • PixelEater, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3I have asthma, but I'm okay with it if you choke :)
      • notwkf, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3I didn't make it past "y'all"
      • PokerGigolo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Just a suggestion, but maybe, just maybe, it's ok to step away from digg for a few minutes when an asthma attack hits. I can say this much, if I wake up to a news story tomorrow about a guy that died of an asthma attack in front of his computer with a half-finished digg comment on-screen, I will indeed find that funny.
      • spvn, on 08/12/2008, -2/+1ok im sorry for my initial outburst, was feeling really bad earlier and am better now and realise i went abit too far. my point is, there have been diseases that were deemed "incurable" in the past but us humans eventually got around to curing them (smallpox), so there's always hope that cancer or even AIDs could be cured one day. And making fun of every new discovery to do with a cure for such diseases (regardless of how small/ridiculous it is) just isn't funny...
    • geoman2k, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3best comment ever.
  • PeteBeast, on 08/11/2008, -2/+68I just hope this is the real deal and not something to get people's hopes up. We'll see the results in due time.
    • zomglolcats, on 08/11/2008, -0/+12It's digg. Of course it's not the real deal. We should have cured cancer 100 times by now at least.
    • phibit, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8Psht, digg has single-handedly cured cancer 500 times, and AIDS 300 times. None of the articles posted are about obscure health science that leads nowhere.
      • Vincent21212, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Amen. Diggers need to stay away from the health sector.
    • xister, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1Well, it sounds promising and hopefully it's a step in the right direction. I already have the start of rheumatoid arthritis.
    • blarch, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1that's what i thought the first time i heard about obama.
  • j1ggy, on 08/11/2008, -19/+367CAPS are LAME.
    • P5ycHo, on 08/11/2008, -6/+36Not in this case.
    • inThePoopShoot, on 08/11/2008, -1/+47UNLESS YOU WANT TO UNLEASH THE FURY!!!!!
      • gglynn07, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4or FIRE'N MAH LAZER!!! Damn you internet meme's, get out of my head!!!
      • veriix, on 08/11/2008, -4/+2***** you! Two of my friends died when they tried to unleash the fury!





        ...they broke my caps, I didn't have a choice.
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 08/11/2008, -1/+14The CURE FOR FRICKEN' CANCER is something that deserves all caps and gold embossing.

      However, the next version of Gears of War, will probably get all caps from some fanboy and I will get slapped down for "why the caps?" Maybe by someone like yourself you thinks that this is nothing to get excited about. If you live long enough, someone you know is going to die of cancer.
      • dxpsteve, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Correction: You will get 'dugg' down.
    • thomasthecat, on 08/11/2008, -2/+39CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
    • masterspy7, on 08/11/2008, -2/+2KAAAAAAAAA
    • adijux, on 08/11/2008, -1/+0Unless you want to BOLD some words that are important.
      • PokerGigolo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0Maybe so, but when the majority of something is in all caps, and one word isn't, don't you think that makes the "unimportant" word feel bad? What did "secret" ever do to you?

        PEOPLE, no matter WHO they may be, can USE this advice: ALL CAPS, when used correctly, ARE one of a writer's best TOOLS. Make sense?
  • Shiftgood, on 08/11/2008, -3/+304They better get their patent quick, because ive seen at least 8 cures for cancer in the last month on digg.
    • m4csrgh3yk3v, on 08/11/2008, -23/+2I've seen that samefag comment at least 8 times on digg.
      • BXRWXR, on 08/11/2008, -2/+15Samefag? What is /b/ /b/roken or something?

        Tard.
      • OstrakonX, on 08/11/2008, -7/+3Actually, 4chan is down.
    • rpgmaker, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3And AIDS. No doubt digg is more mainstream now.
    • SyntraFTW, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1Yeah, cause were running out of cancer patients and all.
  • DaveTurnbull, on 08/11/2008, -22/+32Australia ftw.
  • merlin484, on 08/11/2008, -14/+7crikey!
    • rrife, on 08/11/2008, -1/+4They need to stop all of this cancer non-sense and concentrate more on curing stingray attacks.
  • randyzaia, on 08/11/2008, -7/+856Digg has cured cancer 20 times and AIDS like 32 times.
    • Ouze, on 08/11/2008, -19/+10Aids? What is this, 1984? How retro.
      • nedzeve, on 08/11/2008, -0/+10Aids only existed back in the 80's? Well, that's a relief.
      • goosegoosegoose, on 08/12/2008, -2/+3It's a reference to South Park you nerds, don't digg it down
    • Juice7, on 08/11/2008, -14/+4And every time there's someone who makes a comment exactly like this.
      • randyzaia, on 08/11/2008, -0/+10And there will continue to be comments exactly like this every time someone makes a sensationalistic post about a "cure" for cancer that isn't backed up by...an actual cure for cancer.
      • Aikidi, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4My favorite part? Sure, everytime theres always the "we've had 18 cures for cancer already" comments and theyre always dugg up. BUT EVEN BETTER is the fact that there will be the "ugh, someone always makes this comment" comment and they get buried. Without fail. Every single time.

        You know you're getting buried for it. You know beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one will appreciate your "this comment is so cliche" comment, and yet you make it anyway.
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 08/11/2008, -3/+4821 times is the charm -- keep hope alive!
      • FadieZ, on 08/11/2008, -0/+9I'd digg you up but you're at +21 and I don't want to kill the magic.
    • sfury, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1yup, that's old news
    • Chirp08, on 08/11/2008, -0/+13Yeah, but THIS time it's true because.... [give me a few minutes to find what I said last time]
    • Bersy, on 08/11/2008, -7/+13Correction: Digg IS Cancer.
    • Flashtone, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4when it surfaces have it cure my grandfather.
    • pcrepairshop, on 08/11/2008, -5/+2and I've seen Diggers use this analogy like 10 times....
    • Tyrghast, on 08/11/2008, -0/+12All I know is if the cure for cancer is found in marijuana, I am going to be a very rich man.
      • klipseracer, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8You could have gotten away with a similar comment without emphasizing the fact that you possess a bunch of pot.
    • nynexla, on 08/11/2008, -8/+1Digg didnt do ***** but talk about it
    • junkwheel, on 08/11/2008, -2/+2I know, I'm at the point where I'd rather see someone crack Jessica Simpson's ass.
    • Nollykin, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3Indeed. My partner works in genetics and mol. bio here in adelaide, australia- and I've heard her mentioning this protien. It's an interesting concept, indeed- but it's far more complex than that article suggests. Yes, there's hope that this may help stop the spread of certain types of cancer- but there's a LOT more research to be done before we can put our arms in the air shouting "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD"
    • Faith7No7More7, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0You positive about that?
    • PixelEater, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Why does Digg get so excited then? Because Digg is riddled with cancer and AIDS!
  • forzafruth, on 08/11/2008, -18/+11CAPS LOCK SECRET UNCOVERED!!
    • cheezintern, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5At least they didn't use "!!!!!!BREAKING OMG:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
    • ramup, on 08/11/2008, -6/+1Muppets like you seem to be more interested in capslock/grammar rather than an article.
  • mrzack, on 08/11/2008, -36/+6there are over 300 ways to cure cancer through natural health and nutrition. ***** to this scientific finding. What a waste of money.
    • RevAradia, on 08/11/2008, -3/+7I hear ya mrzack. You're sooooo right.
    • Metasquares, on 08/11/2008, -2/+16Do you think cancer patients aren't trying those remedies? Do you think we would still be using chemo and radiation as our primary treatment modalities if people were being cured that way?
      • mrzack, on 08/11/2008, -11/+3NO. cancer patients Aren't trying those remedies that's why they're dying. If Chemo and radiation really worked, then why do people still die from Cancer. Boy, you are brainwashed. why don't you go try reading a book on nutrition and natural health.
      • Aikidi, on 08/11/2008, -5/+2I'm pretty sure cancer research centers have read your "books", scoffed at them, and used them to wipe their ass.

        To quote the good Dr. Cox, "What do I know, I've only been practicing medicine for twenty years and the guy who wrote that wikipedia article on cancer treatments also wrote the battlestar galactica episode guide." (probably misquoted, bad memory)
      • biotch, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Hey mrzack,
        If everyone else is brainwashed why dont you post some of these supposed cures that are so obvious to regular smart people like yourself?
    • iChaz, on 08/11/2008, -3/+4because your opinion is OBVIOUSLY so right. you're a ***** jackass. when you get cancer come back and tell us no one needs chemo or radiation.
      • mrzack, on 08/11/2008, -8/+3It's not my Opinion *****, it's SCIENTIFICALLY proven. the science and findings are just sitting there collecting dust because there is no money to be made from natural health.
        Boy are you brainwashed. Chemo and Radiation is the MOST STUPID way to fight cancer. MARK MY WORDS, Western Allopatic medicine is a Failure, and will FAIL!!
      • Mothrog, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Mrzack, there is plenty of money to be made in natural health. They do so by selling books to gullible morons like you.
    • mrfizzle, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0You're kididng right?
  • ginestony, on 08/11/2008, -20/+10Nothing will come of it. We've cured cancer, AIDS, TB, MS, and just about every deadly disease about 10 times over the past 20 years. These things will never make it to the public. It's called population control.
    • roodammy44, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6That would be a retarded way of controlling population.
      Cancer kills the talented people just as much as the untalented.
      Also, cancer is one of the biggest concerns in western countries - countries whose populations are decreasing due to low birth rate, and need to ship in immigrants for work!
      Where are the benefits?
    • inThePoopShoot, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6You seriously can't be that stupid. It's not an effective way of population control. Look at todays population figures, they just keep going up and up regardless of what diseases are out.

      "We've cured cancer, AIDS, TB, MS, and just about every deadly disease about 10 times over the past 20 years. "

      Where's your proof? How can you confirm this?

      If you know anything about disease research, perhaps you wouldn't buy into such dumb ass conspiracy theories.
      • VitriolAndAngst, on 08/11/2008, -5/+1Wait a second, You seriously think it is delusional, to consider that SOMEONE wouldn't do almost anything for Billions and Billions of dollars?

        How many times have we heard of a company shipping a drug that they knew kills people, and covered it up? Do I need to fill this page with examples?

        There may or may not be a conspiracy to NOT cure cancer, but I would say that if they found a cure, it would be delivered like a baldness "treatment," and you would take it the rest of your life. THAT is what makes the most profit.

        I'm not anti-corporation, but you folks that call everyone who is suspicious a tin-foil-hat wearer are perhaps the most naive folks around.
    • BowieX, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6Right. AIDS helps prevent gay people from reproducing...
    • cesclaveria, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2he is not talking about actual cures being covered up, he is talking about the many articles on digg claiming to have cured every disease. We have seen many articles claiming to have cured cancer before.
      • alexanEmpire, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Or simply the clinical trials never worked. Maybe they are still trying to get funding for clinical trials. No need to cry wolf.
  • digital0verdose, on 08/11/2008, -21/+15This ***** is getting annoying. Every goddamn week we see headlines like "the next truly working cancer cure has been found", or "this drug promises to kill cancer" or "the secret is cracked" yet in every single one of these poorly headlined articles we see the word "hope" or phrase "if it works."
    JOURNALISTS: ARE YOU ALL ***** IDIOTS? MAKING A DECLARATION FOLLOWED BY A WORD THAT ADDS UNCERTAINTY IS ***** RETARDED!!!!!!!
    • kubedawg, on 08/11/2008, -2/+3For cancer patients, hope is all they've got. I bet if you had leukemia, you're opinion on the subject would be flipped 180 degrees.
      • digital0verdose, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2That is pure *****. My mom died of cancer this past May and reports like this depressed her more than anything. She would look at the paper or watch the story in hopes that something actually had been found but every ***** time she was let down.
        So, I bet if you had leukemia and saw headline after headline that turned out to be proverbial cockteases, you're opinion on the subject would be flipped 180 degrees.
        The ***** media continually acts irresponsibly and people, like the ones that have dug this down, are the reasons they keep getting away with this *****.
      • blackdeath88012, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1that's a 360 degree flip. so i guess digital overdose is gonna end up having the same opinion overall?
    • sockpuppets, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2There's a possibility you're correct.
    • soulkitchen, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1I'm Ron Burgundy?
  • max1018, on 08/11/2008, -3/+20Oh well. So what we got next week to cure cancer, eh? When will this ***** actually get to see the light of day and start saving lives?
    • Ymeg, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6When people realize that science takes time and breakthroughs =! cure.
    • darkciti2, on 08/11/2008, -5/+5When Big Pharma stops crushing the research just so they can continue "treating" patients, rather than healing them.

      Economics 101: The subscription business model is the best one.
  • Azohko, on 08/11/2008, -4/+88If someone who browses Digg gets cancer, they're going to go to the doctor thinking "no problem, cancer has been cured, just give me that treatment that I Dugg yesterday".

    Be Ready for a rude awakening.
    • EarlOfLade, on 08/11/2008, -3/+4If so, that person must be a moron.

      Every normal person understand that the time from a discovery to a publicly available treatment, can easily span a decade. One thing is figuring out how a protein enables the cancer, another is to make a medication that when taken enables or inhibits the protein and in a safe way.

      But, it's just another example of how evolution is correct and how evolution allow us to find these solutions that may end up as effective medications.
      • blarch, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1cancer won't be cured until big pharma takes the cure off the shelf.
  • galvo, on 08/11/2008, -4/+66$10 says this "secret" goes absolutely nowhere.
    • rrife, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8I'll see your $10 and raise you $20.
    • krystofr, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3I'm all-in for $5000
    • pandaboy99, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2In other news... BREAKTHROUGH in ELECTRIC CAR/BATTERY technology! ya right...
      • Aikidi, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1wait...that actually seems to happen based on the increases of quality in electrics in the last decade.
    • Sentinel, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Sadly I'm sure that's actually a pretty safe bet.
    • trogle, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Somebody gambled a lot more than 10 dollars to do this research
  • Shoebox639, on 08/11/2008, -51/+100Science will cure cancer.

    God does/can/will not.
    • leerayIG88, on 08/11/2008, -6/+11wha?
    • zomglolcats, on 08/11/2008, -2/+45While that is true, how does this relate to the article?
    • aeoo, on 08/11/2008, -12/+3I disagree with your line of thinking. Just to tickle your mind, consider that God might be a scientist and may cure cancer using a type of science that our Earthly scientists have yet to discover? I mean, you make a lot of assumptions in your statement. If God is what people think it is, certainly God can cure cancer. If you don't believe that God exists, then you cannot honestly say "God will not cure cancer", since a non-existent entity cannot honestly have a will. If God is a sentient being, like a human, then he/she/it can certainly do all the same things that any human can. If God is a superset of a human, then obviously God can do anything within the human subset.

      Your thinking is ***** in more ways than one and who has the time to go over it here in digg? Not me.

      Don't be blinded by physicalist materialism. Diseases can have non-physical causes (like mental conflicts that later manifest in the body). If you don't believe me, just become horribly conflicted about something and dwell on it and see what happens to you. Of course the conflict has to be an honest one. "Pretend" conflict won't have the same emotional power.
      • LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6take
        your
        meds
      • aeoo, on 08/12/2008, -1/+1@LilRabbitFooFoo:

        Nice -- an insult used as a reply to reasoning, modded at +4 (+3 with my downmod). No wonder I don't take Digg seriously when it comes to reasoning.
    • OfficialJoe, on 08/11/2008, -8/+2Except if God created science. There seems to a be problem with your logic.

      Anyway, I agree with the lolcats person...why is this relevant?
    • Shoebox639, on 08/11/2008, -7/+8Just felt like stirring up the pot a little. With every major scientific advance, religion loses ground.

      The sky used to stay up because Atlas held it up.
      Disease and suffering used to be from Pandora's box.
      Then it was because Eve ate the apple.
      The Earth used to be at the center of the Universe.
      The Earth used to be flat.
      All creatures were created by God as they are now.
      The Earth was 6000 years old.

      Therefore: science > religion
      • liongoesroar, on 08/11/2008, -6/+6Uh, if you mean science > crazy fundamentalist Christians, then you'd be correct. But not all religion is that basic. Science and religion DO NOT have to be in opposition. Most well-developed theology coexists easily with science.
      • OfficialJoe, on 08/11/2008, -3/+5Scientists. Equating religion with God since the dawn of modernism. When will you ever learn the distinction?
      • Jaydamis, on 08/11/2008, -3/+2When your theology has to "develop" - something is wrong.
        If it was true all along then it should be as it was.
      • biotch, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2liongoesroar,
        yeah it coexists easily after science blows previous theology out of the water and they have to play catch up and adapt theology to fit scientific molds...
        A lot of those theories were common beliefs at one time and we are STILL facing a ludicrous contingent of people who contend the earth is 6000 years old and that all creatures were created by god as they are now.... basically denying the mountains of molecular and plain observational evidence supporting evolution.
      • BabaRamDass, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1biotch, not all theology has been blown "out of the water." Indeed, Buddhism has certain roots which have predated modern science; it's almost as if science was catching up to Buddhism.
    • blarch, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3cancer is god, because god is everything right? i believe in the universe. the universe is everything.
    • BabaRamDass, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2"God does/can/will not."

      What if God was a name for the force that drives the universe, the force that drives evolution, the force that allows the flowers to bloom, etc. Indeed, it would be the name for the force that drives the scientific method, the force that drives the blood that flows through those scientists, and undoubtedly the force that delivers the cure. Paradoxically, God is also the force that drives the cancer to begin with. Alan Watts called it the "Eenie Weenie trying to make the Eenie Weenie."

      My point is that God means a lot of things to a lot of different people. Most Christians would call me a heretic for my definition of God, but not everyone believes in their definition.

      (blarch kinda makes my point.)
  • justdru, on 08/11/2008, -4/+299CANCER... cured daily at Digg since November 2004.
  • beerock, on 08/11/2008, -10/+4Cancer secret cracked?
    Researchers discover magic?
  • ramup, on 08/11/2008, -8/+1Secret cracked ?
    As if we didn't know.
  • tomd123, on 08/11/2008, -4/+6I want a link to the research or university website or it didn't happen.
    Also, if this was true, don't you think I would be able to turn on any local news station and hear it?!?!? Also, did anyone see The Mist?
  • law1ess, on 08/11/2008, -2/+16I hope they can put the secret back together again...
    • gamekid, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3"The Daily Show: when news breaks, we fix it."
  • Rotzooi, on 08/11/2008, -6/+141***** cancer research, where are my pitless cherries?
    • wbeavis, on 08/11/2008, -0/+58Oh, they have made them...but they cause cancer. I think you see where this is going.
    • happytedium, on 08/11/2008, -0/+9I just spat water everywhere. Thanks.
    • LongBong, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1hahaha
    • jyrus, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2don't drink and digg
    • Chuck1988, on 08/12/2008, -2/+1With our luck we will get those pitless cherries, but only to find out that they actually cause cancer.
      • theOster, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2did you read...eh nevermind
      • shibXcore, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2It says that right up... Oh, what's the use.
  • BelatedHero, on 08/11/2008, -1/+12But I thought Kevin Trudeau had already found the cure for cancer.
    • FlimBlimmer, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8yes, but he can only talk of it when he's not in Jail.
    • BonersMilloy, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2Scams for all!
  • soloman747, on 08/11/2008, -9/+31. Since when were asthma and rhumatoid arthritis cancer?
    2. Cracking a secret of cancer is cool and all, but wake me up when someone manages to crack the other 200 million secrets and actually cures it.
    • spectecjr, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1I think I've got that one worked out for you. In about 2 years, they're going to figure out that this is caused by latent and active herpesviridae infections.

      Just sayin'.
  • Dabaum, on 08/11/2008, -8/+1I hope this isn't just another way to get a ***** ton of AA batteries
  • Aturaten, on 08/11/2008, -4/+9Good, maybe I can stop having arthritis at 18.
    • TheOtherGuy, on 08/11/2008, -9/+8...or you could quit looking at porn

      your choice.
    • blackdeath88012, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5i'm appalled at the fact that this guy could have arthritis and he's been dugg down, and the guy who made fun of him has been dugg up. or maybe he really DOES need to stop looking at porn..
      • Aturaten, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3I do in fact have RA in my hand joints and hips.
  • digitalgodd3ss, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2this article isn't very detailed, hence not as convincing as I'd hoped. I had to read it twice just to understand how they found the "cure."
  • microchp, on 08/11/2008, -0/+11Of a few thousand "cure for cancer" articles that have come across digg, I have not seen a single one of them hit a drugstore shelf or become a prescription. This has been going on for a long time now. Before sites like this, these articles would be in popular science, discovery and others. Yet to this day, there are still no "cures" for cancer. This is getting old. Rick-roll old.
    • Murdats, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5do you reguarly check out the pharmacies?
      you realise cancer treatment has improved massively in the last 10 years, hell we have a cancer vaccine.

      but no, people only remember the headlines and expect nothing less then a silver bullet.
      • Terr01, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3We have a vaccine against a virus connected with later cancerous issues. That's very different than a "cancer vaccine".
    • nikitab, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Also, please note that it takes 1 billion dollars and 10 years to develop a drug... so if stuff is still in clinical trials, you won't see a direct correlation between headlines and products on the market.
      • microchp, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1As previously stated, these have been going around for a long time. I have been seeing these articles in magazines and publications created by and viewed by the scientific community for a couple of decades. These discoveries keep popping up, but nobody has "cured" anything. Plenty of drugs get created that keep some symptoms held back, but nobody has created a cure for cancer.
    • laserman, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2prescrpition? i hardly even see a scientific article. this is just some half baked idea. thousands of scientists have better ideas that are further along.
  • sc0rpi0n, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Today must be the most rewarding day for medical advancements, with cures and vaccines of AIDS and Cancer. Hope digg won't lie.
  • andre9, on 08/11/2008, -1/+91No no no... Digg has cured cancer...this is CANCER... big difference.
  • StevoJD, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6I always hear about new "breakthroughs", but I never see any cures...
  • JazminMillion, on 08/11/2008, -2/+3Yesssss! Finally!
    • gn0stik, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Yessss. Another cure for cancer.... that's not available for quite some time, and will likely not make it to market, because there's more money in treating it than curing it, and of course, our severe overpopulation problem.
      • JazminMillion, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1You got it, I could not have said it better myself!
  • elhaf, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Another cure for cancer? I suppose it will be 10-15 years before it has practical use for the patient.
  • sputza, on 08/11/2008, -0/+72Don't tell cancer, they will issue a patch next Tuesday.
    • inv1ctus, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Too late. They just did a rolling restart. Damn.
  • scott_trcic, on 08/11/2008, -4/+0Um, I hope this is real? Can't someone just tell me it's real and cancer is cured for good...And it be true.
  • Cleremond, on 08/11/2008, -11/+37I concur....between the DCA (Dichloracetate) cure (which I honestly DO believe in), The Essiac Tea Therapy which cured my co-worker's Dad's cancer, the silver/gold magnetic resonance cure (that resulted in another HHO water fuel discovery), the megadose of intravenous Vitamin C therapy used in Germany that's been proven to cure cancer, the injected dye vs. dye eating enzyme therapy that was mentioned in Popular Science several years ago that we never heard anything more about, and numerous other lab tested and confirmed cures for cancer....

    This will go nowhere. Even IF it works. Big Pharm doesn't want to CURE cancer. They want to continue to TREAT cancer.

    Same thing for Type 1 diabetes. They've proven that capsaicin injections into the pancreas stimulate the production of insulin in Type 1 patients. They've also demonstrated that the tuberculosis vaccine flat out cures Type 1 all together. But, you'll never see these therapies released to the public, because it would destroy multi-billion dollar industries. So....we'll continue to die untimely deaths to support the profit centers of others.

    I hate humans. 8^(
    • loaff, on 08/11/2008, -15/+7Wow. You're an idiot.
    • pyronik, on 08/11/2008, -3/+5"Big Pharm doesn't want to CURE cancer. They want to continue to TREAT cancer."

      Most of the companies don't have drugs in the advanced stage pipeline in stage 3 clinicals, thus the incentive to come up with a cancer blockbuster will be... well ... pretty great. Being as most of their drugs will have gone generic.
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5I''m not going to agree that there is a conspiracy, but I would say that there is a profit motive in an effective TREATMENT, that requires a patentable drug.

      The things you mention are, for the most part, over the counter, or reproducible by others.

      The best way to prove these things one way or the other is to get some stats on whether top executives of big pharma companies and their close relatives ever die of cancer.

      >> I think the best outcome, is that there be money put back into science and take over developing these "cures" at a government lab or university. It could easily be funded, by Big Pharma companies actually paying back for all the research they sponge off of Universities and package into their over priced drugs.
    • fantasticjon, on 08/11/2008, -4/+8Are you guys for real? Why is this conspiracy theory gibberish getting dugg up. Did I miss the sarcasm tag?

      Yes, The Big Pharma is hold back these simple cures for cancer. Big Oil is also suppressing 200MPG carburators and water powered cars.

      "the silver/gold magnetic resonance cure (that resulted in another HHO water fuel discovery)" WTF?

      Some of these treatments might help cure cancer, but none of them are the magic bullet. I think the Vitamin C thing is in clinical trials in the US.
    • sstidman, on 08/11/2008, -2/+10Ehh, I'm not a big believer in these kinds of conspiracy theories. They start by assuming that the pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots. All of them, big and small. So if one of them comes up with a treatment, all of them will make no attempt to find a cure.

      In reality, these companies are competitors. They don't give a ***** about each other. And finding treatments and cures is incredibly hard, despite what conspiracy theorists will have you believe. So when one of these companies finds an effective treatment, all the other companies will spend all their time trying to find something better so they can knock their competitor off their position as the lead provider of treatment for a specific disease. If in the course of searching for a treatment a company finds a cure, do you really believe they'll say to themselves "well, we've spent all this money finding a better treatment and accidentally found a cure....let's not tell anyone because we don't want to hurt our competitor"? Of course not, they'll say "excellent, let's put this on the market and bury our competitor".

      Please, please, please stop with all the ***** conspiracy theories. They always start by assuming stronger associations between groups of people than actually exist in reality. And they always grossly underestimate how hard it is to find a cure.
      • 2reflective, on 08/11/2008, -2/+2"In reality, these companies are competitors." True... but the real people who benefit from the enormous profits they make are the wealthy families who own stock in all the big pharma companies (via hedge funds etc). Regardless of the competition between companies, the house always wins.
  • cerpintaxt10, on 08/11/2008, -7/+1every few months it seems that we have cured it LOL
    • Aikidi, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5way to ***** up an almost fool-proof way to get dugg up
  • tigraco, on 08/11/2008, -1/+1interesting... if true.
  • loaff, on 08/11/2008, -0/+10This title is largely sensational. Traditional media is notorious for mischaracterizing scientific discoveries.

    This seems an important step in helping stop leukemias (a subtype of cancer -- saying "cancer" is a bit broad). Obviously, with the receptor structure known, it can be blocked with a drug or antibody and help slow growth. This could, nay, will, take years before being clinically relevant. Even if this drug is efficacious, it doesn't mean it will be safe. Maybe blocking the receptor halts other crucial processes. When reading these articles, approach with skepticism - journalists are not clinicians.

    tl;dr - Good job scientists, bad job media.
  • LogicBomB, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Again, stop telling me what you've cracked and start showing me canercell patients.
  • MurphyWatson, on 08/11/2008, -5/+6The pharmaceutical industry isn't going to let this happen. They're not interested in helping people, they're interested in keeping them alive long enough to suck up all of their families money until they die.
  • jamesmcginnis, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3Is it just me or is the Cancer Secret cracked almost everyday here on digg?

    • TheOtherGuy, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4you and hundreds of others who have said exactly the same thing....
    • terminal157, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2You should probably skim the comments before posting one yourself.
  • wing05, on 08/11/2008, -0/+18As long as I can remember, there've been new breaking cancer treatments and cures posted on sites like Digg for the last 10 years.

    Among them.
    - Infect cancer patients with modified cold/aids/or whatever virus.
    - Radio waves.
    - Repurposed old drugs that put a big target for the immune system on cancer cells.
    - New drugs

    Within the last 5 years, I've watched 3 people in my circle of family and friends die too young from cancer and there are 2 more fighting for their lives right now.

    Make mention of any of these therapies and nobody knows what you're talking about or might give a standard canned answer of it being experimental in a university lab somewhere around the world with no human trials going on. And that the best course of action is chemo, ectomies, and then palliative care.

    Stop getting our hopes up.
    • bjs3171, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1that first one was the premise to I Am Legend. I doubt it was a real experiment.
      • wing05, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Actually, it is... Look up virus kills cancer cells and there are various articles about trials.
    • jsp123, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Exactly, hope is the worst thing you can have when you are fighting for your life.
      • wing05, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Hope is good.

        I recall Gates McFadden telling about fan mail asking her for 24th century medicine to help cure 20th century ills.

        That was dillusional.

        The main stream media coming out with "breakthroughs" of new therapies which are only a "few years" away is disheartening when you or your loved ones try to bring it up and the doctor has never heard of it before or disuades you from trying it.
  • WoollyMittens, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6Ah... another nice patent to go unused into the filing cabinets of a big pharmaceutical corporation.
  • Conramic, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6Well, my mother is in the hospital this very moment with chronic leukemia, and my father has had prostate cancer for the past few years. While this would be a blessing (even if it is more effective than any other treatments Digg has uncovered), they won't be able to see any of this come to life by the time their battles are over. They're both in their early 50's.

    Here's to hoping at least one of these Dugg cures doesn't get buried by Mother Nature!
  • wing05, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Speaking of cures for cancer... I may have a couple of stories mixed up in my mind and it might not even be cancer that this relates to.

    Does anyone remember within the last year or two a discovery of some off the shelf drug whose patent had expired but was found to have an affect on cancer? It was found in a western Canadian university...

    The big outcry was that since it wasn't patentable and profitable, no big pharma company was about to spend any money to put it into clinical trials.
    • Cleremond, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2That was the Dicloracetate (DCA) cure. It was tested at the University of Alberta and was proven to cure human cancer in lab rats just by adding it to their drinking water. It is a freely available natural compond and hence cannot be patented. It supposedly reactivates the disfunctional mitochondria in cancerous cells inducing apoptosis without adversely affecting nearby healthy cells. The FDA has also restricted the sale of it to the public as they don't want people treating themselves with it. www.getdca.com was forced to stop the sale of the compound as a cancer treatment.

      I look at it this way. If I have stage 3 or 4 cancer that's gonna kill me, I'll take my chances with DCA and the easily mitigated neuropathy that can accompanies its use.
      • wing05, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2"The FDA has also restricted the sale of it to the public as they don't want people treating themselves with it. www.getdca.com was forced to stop the sale of the compound as a cancer treatment."

        Yippee... and just who is the FDA protecting with this enforcement?

        Hooray for corporate welfare.

        Thanks for this info. One of the two has breast cancer that's spread. Her doctor wants to go straight to palliative care, say your goodbyes and try to be happy for whatever time you have left. She wants to fight. Maybe this might help.
  • iancgi, on 08/11/2008, -11/+2Cancer is a fungus. If you never want to get cancer raise the ph your body to 10. Fungus and bacteria cant survive in a alkaline environment.
  • ownwonnow, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4A cure for asthma would certainly be welcomed by me as opposed to treating its symptoms.
  • Chimone, on 08/11/2008, -6/+8It costs more to treat cancer than to cure it. therefore this "cure" will never see production. greedy Americans will make sure of it
    • Nudar, on 08/11/2008, -1/+7Because as we all know, the only pharmaceutical companies on Earth are located in America.
    • joeanon, on 08/11/2008, -1/+2That's idiotic. They are dumping billions into cancer research just to improve the 'cures' we have now.

      Most people with cancer have remissions chances not simply because they have this reacquiring disease but because part of their genetic code is damaged and causes this condition called cancer.

      It's not like other diseases, such as polio, which is just one disease, cancer manifests itself in thousands of different ways, it's easily the most complex class of wide spread diseases out there.

      New treatments are always welcome especially for hard to treat leukemia, asthma and arthritis. There are billions of people suffering from those worldwide, and more treatments that work mean more money and a little bit less suffering.

      Rejecting small advances for your ideal magic bullet cure is just small minded, don't know jack about the situation BS.







    • diggydougie, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2From what I can tell this discovery just halts the growth. But you still have what you started with. So you would still need treatment.
  • cyclades, on 08/11/2008, -3/+9Digg is a remarkably disease free zone. Why I feel healthier already just digging here.
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