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Hugh_Lebowski

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2. The potential for growing the numbers of the meager smattering of Humans on Earth is great!

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 03:50 PM

Oct 2021

Not to mention, of course, individual homo sapiens living as LOOOOOOONG as possible.

Which is, of course, the most worthy goal there has ever been.

We should for sure throw a ton of money at it instead of say, dumb-old climate change, or cleaning up the environment so less people get cancer to begin with.

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New treatment destroys head and neck cancer tumours in trial [View all] Jilly_in_VA Oct 2021 OP

Excellent!!! jimfields33 Oct 2021 #1

The potential for growing the numbers of the meager smattering of Humans on Earth is great! Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #2

Or we could, you know, do both? ShazzieB Oct 2021 #4

Let's just say that if *I* believed that were possible, we wouldn't be having this discussion :) nt Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #13

There's money to be made!!! nt kirkuchiyo Oct 2021 #5

It would be interesting DENVERPOPS Oct 2021 #6

Have you ever loved someone who has cancer? colorado_ufo Oct 2021 #7

Honestly, I'm partly joking, but I'm also pretty misanthropic at this point ... Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2021 #12

Count on it we will be, each and every one of us that gets Cancer or whose family does. We will be Ford_Prefect Oct 2021 #9

As a 13 year Stage IV throat cancer survivor, thank you sinkingfeeling Oct 2021 #14

I've long thought that finding ways to turn the patient's immune system into a tumour killer was BobTheSubgenius Oct 2021 #3

My husband lost his best friend to brain cancer 3 years ago. rustysgurl Oct 2021 #8

I had a friend that was in on the trials of this drug cocktail in 2014. flying_wahini Oct 2021 #10

This is the second treatment that comes out of the UK of significance ... aggiesal Oct 2021 #11