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New Cancer Treatment?

Michael Tomasson tomasson at helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Wed Nov 22 13:33:32 EST 1995


Steve,

Total bullocks.  Is that the right spelling?

The flaw in your "proposal" lies in the vague nature of your idea.
You describe antibodies that "bind cancer cells."  That is like saying
"a drug that kills cancer cells."  Do you have an antibody that the
world should know about?  What antigen does your antibody bind to?

Essentially not a bad idea.  But it was thought about first several
decades ago. Unfortunately, cancer cells, antigenically, are well-
nigh identical to normal cells.  The one exception seems to be
melanoma where there do seem to be tumor-specific antigens.

MHT



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