Reading a book!

Anyone wonders why i'm quiet. I'm trying to read that book ;-)
Makes me wonder what is wrong with scientists, immunotherapy existed for years, but they didn't want to go that route? Really??

The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

Cancer is different. It does not announce itself like the flu or any other disease, or even a splinter. It doesn’t seem to sound an alarm in the house of the body, or provoke an immune response, or show symptoms of immune battle: no fever or inflammation or swollen lymph glands, not even a sniffle. Instead, the tumor is suddenly discovered, an unwelcome guest that has been growing and spreading out, sometimes for years. Often by then it is too late.

To many cancer researchers, this apparent lack of immune response to cancer meant that the goal of helping an immune response to cancer was futile—because there was nothing to help. Cancer was assumed to be too much a part of our selves to be noticed as “non-self.” The very concept of cancer immunotherapy seemed fundamentally flawed.

But throughout history, physicians had recorded rare cases of patients whose cancers apparently cured themselves. In a prescientific age these “spontaneous remissions” were seen as the work of magic or miracle; in fact, they are the work of an awakened immune system. For more than a hundred years researchers tried and failed to replicate those miracles through medicine, to vaccinate or spark an immune response to cancer similar to those against other formerly devastating diseases like polio, smallpox, or the flu. There were glimmers of hope, but no reliable treatments. By the year 2000, cancer immunologists had cured cancer in mice hundreds of times, but could not consistently translate those results to people. Most scientists believed they never would.

I understand doctors and scientists are only people, and have opinions, believes, bank accounts....
And the big companies decide where the research money goes.
But to just not pursue that one thing because there is more money to be made from chemo drugs and radiation treatments than some "immunotherapy" that's not even proven to work on humans. Really? If you think about all that money that goes into research for war machines....

I need a drink.