High School Student Might Have Found Cure For Cancer

[Cal166]

http://wgrd.com/high-school-student-might-have-found-cure-for-cancer-video/

This is a pretty amazing video. This girl is only in high school and may have come up with the solution for a cure to cancer. Share this with people as this is extremely amazing and great news for all of us that have been affected by the scourge that is cancer. 17-year-old Angela Zhang of Cupertino of California, just won $100,000 in the national Siemens science contest for potentially finding the cure.

 

[NuclearNed]

Hallelujah. I can finally start smoking.

 

[ElFenix]

and now siemens owns the patent and will bury it never to be seen again to support their cronies at bayer who make expensive chemotherapy drugs


/conspiracy

 

[ShawnD1]

Hallelujah. I can finally start smoking.

The cancer is caused by the smoke, not the nicotine. You can still use nicotine inhalers, patches, and gum if you want nicotine. I'm sucking on a nicotine inhaler right now, but I've never smoked.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

So I assume she found a way to prevent a very specific pathway that cancer develops from the other 10,000 pathways that cancer has in order to become malignant.

 

[ElFenix]

So I assume she found a way to prevent a very specific pathway that cancer develops from the other 10,000 pathways that cancer has in order to become malignant.

nope

what she found is a potential way to mark individual cancer cells in the body. using that same compound that marks the cells, you can deliver medicine in a pinpoint manner. so you'll still need something to kill the cancer cell but it can probably be fairly potent.

 

[TecHNooB]

nope

what she found is a potential way to mark individual cancer cells in the body. using that same compound that marks the cells, you can deliver medicine in a pinpoint manner. so you'll still need something to kill the cancer cell but it can probably be fairly potent.

Well they've definitely done something like that before. What's different this time?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

nope

what she found is a potential way to mark individual cancer cells in the body. using that same compound that marks the cells, you can deliver medicine in a pinpoint manner. so you'll still need something to kill the cancer cell but it can probably be fairly potent.

I remember reading something like this about several dozen times over the past couple of years.

They all use different techniques to do the same thing, and they all still haven't produced progress.

It sounds pessimistic, but cancer is not created the same. They don't all the exact same markings that differentiate them from healthy cells. Its one of the reasons cancer hasn't been cured, its fucking hard to differentiate them from normal stuff and a marking technique might work for one specific type of cell but be wholly useless for another type. And in that case, it JUST MIGHT start making healthy cells for destruction.

 

[Anonemous]

Wasn't this posted like over a few months ago?

Like the above guy says everyone's cancer is different and will require genomic screening to personalize the treatment the patient gets since not all cancer's mutate the same way.

 

[Imp]

Ya... I heard something like this a month or so ago.

 

[AMDZen]

I guess we'll see, seems like more of the same science thats been done even for a couple years

 

[Platypus]

This 'cure for cancer/aids' type story pops up every few months but nothing ever comes of it.

 

[KeithP]

Flakey web site just seems to have embedded the video from the original story, here it is on cbsnews.com:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57358994/calif-hs-student-devises-possible-cancer-cure/


-KeithP

 

[NikolaeVarius]

"Angela recently entered her project in the national Siemens science contest. It was no contest. She got a check for $100,000 and promptly bought about a dozen more pairs of shoes."

I wonder how they know about the grading criteria for Siemens...

The Bio category is so heavily contested. So many different "cures" for cancer, diabetus, obesity.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

There isn't just "cancer."

There's lung cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, etc, etc, etc, etc...

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/alphalist

 

[airdata]

and now siemens owns the patent and will bury it never to be seen again to support their cronies at bayer who make expensive chemotherapy drugs


/conspiracy

Yep. There's no money in curing cancer. There is trillions in "Treatment".

 

[Gibsons]

Yep. There's no money in curing cancer. There is trillions in "Treatment".

How would you proceed with a research and development program to develop a cure instead of a treatment? What would you do that's different from what's already done or being done?

 

[Nintendesert]

ATOT cures cancer again! :thumbsup:

 

[MaxFusion16]

surprise surprise, another asian kid.

and no she hasn't found the cure for cancer.

I also bet that her parents had a hand in this, probably work at the lab and got her access or something.

 

[Gibsons]

surprise surprise, another asian kid.

and no she hasn't found the cure for cancer.

I also bet that her parents had a hand in this, probably work at the lab and got her access or something.

Just read a descrip on the Siemens site, she did the work at Stanford under a prof there.
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2011_winners.htm

And you're correct, this isn't a cure for cancer. It's pretty clever, but it's probably not even a large improvement in treatment.

 

[TecHNooB]

Just read a descrip on the Siemens site, she did the work at Stanford under a prof there.
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2011_winners.htm

And you're correct, this isn't a cure for cancer. It's pretty clever, but it's probably not even a large improvement in treatment.

stanford at 17? must be really smart.

 

[Anonemous]

surprise surprise, another asian kid.

and no she hasn't found the cure for cancer.

I also bet that her parents had a hand in this, probably work at the lab and got her access or something.

It's not what you know, it's WHO you know. Connections will get you farther than skill sadly.

 

[Brainonska511]

stanford at 17? must be really smart.

Lots of schools have programs available through their research labs where professors can mentor high school students in their labs.

 

[Gibsons]

The cancer is caused by the smoke, not the nicotine. You can still use nicotine inhalers, patches, and gum if you want nicotine. I'm sucking on a nicotine inhaler right now, but I've never smoked.

Cancers of mouth and throat are often attributed to chewing and dipping tobacco.

 

[MaxFusion16]

Just read a descrip on the Siemens site, she did the work at Stanford under a prof there.
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2011_winners.htm

And you're correct, this isn't a cure for cancer. It's pretty clever, but it's probably not even a large improvement in treatment.

MENTOR: Dr. Zhen Cheng, Stanford University

haha.....I bet that's a family friend.