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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 10, 2019 17:05:21 GMT -6
Sometimes you come across good news or a good personal experience. Post it here to lighten the mood.
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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 10, 2019 17:06:55 GMT -6
To kick it off here’s an awesome story but if you don’t watch to the end you will miss it. Fabulous story we need more like this as a society:
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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 10, 2019 17:13:46 GMT -6
This is awesome!
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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 12, 2019 22:33:08 GMT -6
koco.com/article/major-breakthrough-oklahoma-hospital-unveils-revolutionary-cancer-treatment/27964954?src=appOKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma doctors on Wednesday unveiled what they call a revolutionary new treatment for cancer patients. The treatment harnesses the body’s own immune cells to fight tumors, and it will be offered starting Thursday at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine. CAR T-cell therapy has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Officials said its initial use is for two different blood cancers, one affecting children and the other affecting adults. “CAR T is a major breakthrough for patients who have not improved with standard treatments,” said Dr. George Selby, director of the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at the Stephenson Cancer Center. “It is an immune therapy in which we’re harnessing our own cells to recognize cancer cells. That’s what a normal immune system does – it acts in a surveillance capacity so that when a malignant cell arises, it is killed by our immune system. CAR T is a way of ‘rebooting’ the immune system when it has failed.” CAR T initially will be used to treat advanced lymphomas in adults. In the coming months, physicians anticipate offering similar treatment for acute lymphoblastic lymphoma in children and young adults. In both cases, patients must have failed to respond to standard chemotherapy or stem cell transplant. CAR T stands for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy. Patients being treated with CAR T will first have their blood collected at the Oklahoma Blood Institute in a process that is similar to a typical blood donation. T cells, a type of white blood cells involved in immunity, are filtered out and the plasma and red cells are returned to the patient. The T cells are then sent to a company that injects them with the gene for a chimeric antigen receptor, which is known to bind itself to cancer cells and activate the T cell, according to officials with the hospital. This process allows the newly engineered T cells to recognize and attack cancer with remarkable efficiency. Once the CAR T cells are generated, they are shipped back to the Stephenson Cancer Center and given to the patient through an IV, much like a blood transfusion, officials said. “Until the advent of CAR T, if a patient’s tumor came back after a stem cell transplant, their options were very limited, if they existed at all,” Selby said. “This is a major breakthrough for those patients for whom standard treatment has not been successful.” Unlike other types of cancer therapies, CAR T is a one-time treatment, officials said. The T cells remain in the body and, if the cancer comes back, the cells reactivate to attack the tumors. “These T cells go on to kill hundreds to thousands of tumor cells; the nickname for these cells is ‘serial killers,’” said Dr. Adam Asch, deputy director of the Stephenson Cancer Center and chief of the Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology. Using the immune system to fight cancer has been the holy grail for oncologists, Asch said. “The research data that led to the approval of CAR T has been extraordinary,” Asch said. “This therapy appears to be long-lasting in a high percentage of these patients.” According to officials, clinical trials are underway studying the effectiveness of CAR T in treating other blood cancers, including multiple myeloma, as well as solid tumors. Another trial will study the effectiveness of CAR T as compared to transplant; CAR T potentially could move ahead of transplant as a treatment because of its ability to use the patient’s own immune system rather than someone else’s. The Stephenson Cancer Center will be participating in several such clinical trials.
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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 16, 2019 18:24:34 GMT -6
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Post by OkieDokie on Jun 16, 2019 18:40:24 GMT -6
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Post by savannahskol on Jul 8, 2019 11:30:02 GMT -6
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Post by kramerhammer on Jul 11, 2019 19:15:11 GMT -6
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Post by kramerhammer on Jul 11, 2019 23:14:14 GMT -6
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Post by Movikx on Jul 21, 2019 10:19:13 GMT -6
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Post by OkieDokie on Jul 21, 2019 12:54:40 GMT -6
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Post by eternalpurple on Jul 21, 2019 20:45:53 GMT -6
To kick it off here’s an awesome story but if you don’t watch to the end you will miss it. Fabulous story we need more like this as a society: Wow indeed......I truly believe if you could somehow work your way through the layers of an Autistic child's mind you would find genius. This boy heard every note, every beat and every stop like no one else in the audience was capable of. Thanks for the story.
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Post by kramerhammer on Jul 21, 2019 20:50:11 GMT -6
I don't wanna be a dick.........but.......if he couldn't see colors, how the hell did he know what each color was? Inquiring minds want to know, schleps do not.
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Post by OkieDokie on Jul 21, 2019 20:59:11 GMT -6
I don't wanna be a dick.........but.......if he couldn't see colors, how the hell did he know what each color was? Inquiring minds want to know, schleps do not. Go and DuckDuckGo it you might learn (learnt) something And stop being a dick you were the first poster to piss on thread. CONGRATS!!!
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kramerhammer
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Post by kramerhammer on Jul 21, 2019 21:03:42 GMT -6
I don't wanna be a dick.........but.......if he couldn't see colors, how the hell did he know what each color was? Inquiring minds want to know, schleps do not. Go and DuckDuckGo it you might learn (learnt) something And stop being a dick you were the first poster to piss on thread. CONGRATS!!! I didn't piss on the thread, I pissed on you and your stupid ass reposting of stupid ass, uniformed twits. By a twit. Twit hurts, don't it? Stop being a twit and use your mind and stop letting your mind be used. Do you ever question anything on Twitter? Ever? Do you ever question your own belief? You should.
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