Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose disease had failed to respond to other treatments.

In the trial, 102 patients with head and neck cancer, the world’s sixth most common cancer, were given the jab. Tumours shrank or disappeared completely in 43 patients, including 28 whose tumours shrank significantly and 15 who saw them eradicated entirely.

    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      327·
      4 days ago

      It’s just awfully informal and reductive for something life-saving and sophisticated.

      Imagine a paramedic saves your life and you call them a meatsack.

      • Pissmidget@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 days ago

        I would most likely have said they were shocking someone, rather than administering defibrillation, though both are just round about ways of saying they were turning someone’s heart off and on again.

        The fact they administered what I consider a mind blowing treatment by way of jab just goes to show what amazing things humans can do.

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      4 days ago

      I’ve only heard it in the context of antivaxxers. Apparently it goes back further in the UK, but that’s when it broke containment.

    • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
      34·
      4 days ago

      My parents fucked to have me.

      Vs:

      My parents had sex to have me.

      Or even:

      my parents were on the bed doggy style, when my mom was on hands and knees on the bed while my dad was behind here thrusting his huge penis into her very tight vagina over and over. She loved every second of it and so did he. They loved eachother very much and entrusted eachother enough to allow this raw behaviour into their bedroom each night of every day. As the penis reached climax, it injected billions upon billions of spermatozoids into her vaginal cavity. Each sperm only had one goal… Swim, swim! If the egg is encountered then go into it to inject the DNA that would become me. All but one would encounter they demise.