New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

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xbar today at 6:26 PM
I lost my brother yesterday to cancer. I hope one day this can save lives. Go Beavs.
quantummagic today at 7:43 PM
Hope this makes it to people soon. Have a family friend who was diagnosed with cancer a few days ago. It was here in Canada, so they offered her assisted suicide, literally within 30 seconds after telling her she had cancer. She didn't even really process the diagnosis before they were offering to help her die. They didn't offer to try any experimental medicine.
RomanPushkin today at 6:20 PM
Experiencing cancer in my family I can tell for sure all of that buzz is quite exciting, but in the last 5 years there haven't been breakthroughs that would significantly improve outcomes for an average patient.
MagicMoonlight today at 9:30 PM
That sounds extremely promising
msie today at 4:29 PM
They should give it to some people with fatal stages of cancer.
mcc1ane today at 3:53 PM
in mice?
esafak today at 5:06 PM
If it worked, how much might it roughly cost per treatment, at scale?
Flere-Imsaho today at 5:44 PM
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fnord77 today at 7:35 PM
Command-F "mice"

yup. every time

dyauspitr today at 4:15 PM
Anything that doesn’t genetically target cancer cells is just not the solution long term. Any progress is good though.