A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.
The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure.
After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Doctors took cells from the man's own defence system that were found to attack the cancer cells best, cloned them and injected back into his body, in a process known as "immunotherapy". After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Experts said that the case could mark a landmark in the treatment of cancer.
Unfortunately, in Canada, even if this were to prove a cure for one or all types of cancer, there's a problem: The communist-style health-care system has a limited budget within which to allocate resources amongst the population. The result is rationing and forced wait times. Diagnosis may come too late; one can become terminal during the wait period just for diagnosis in Canada, let alone the wait period to even have an appointment with an oncologist to determine treatment, after which, who knows how long one will be forced to wait for treatment? One would have to leave the country if one wanted to live. But only people who can afford it can do that, so where's the equality component of Medicare if only people with money can afford to live? What good is it if it's "free" if you can't get it in time anyway? Indeed, Medicare actually condemns the poor to death in Canada, even though it pays for their health care.
It's time to end the hatefully evil monopoly of socialized medicine in Canada that's killing people all the time for lack of timely diagnosis and treatment. Let capitalism help make things better.
