Well, if the dbags that stood up against Stem Cell research a decade ago, hadn't.. .this kid might have been cured years ago.

I'm not deranged at all, look at current pharmaceutical companies and what they offer. Do you ever see an advertisement for a "cure." No you see ads for treatments. Do you see ads for antibiotics, no. Do you see ads for small pox vaccines, no. Have you ever heard the word cure in any pharmaceutical ad? Cancer is too big of a political issue to try and extort money out of people who will die otherwise. Curing people, even if it involves a few treatments is not as sustainable a business model as treatments are. Companies care about profits and that's where the energy goes.

He is absolutely right. How can you make billions of dollars curing something when treatment is such a ludicrous option.

And as for the article claiming "A Whole New Realm of Medicine" BS Europe has been doing this for awhile. Oh, and Payton Manning says hello.

He received stem cell therapy for his neck injury.... I think it worked.

"I'm not deranged at all, look at current pharmaceutical companies and what they offer. Do you ever see an advertisement for a "cure." No you see ads for treatments"

That's because there AREN'T any universal cures. Even this experimental treatment only saved a most of the few people it has been used on, and they no doubt only used it on people they were fairly sure it would work on.

You can't seriously believe that because some multi-billion dollar companies are making lots of money with drugs, there are NO multi-billion dollar companies willing to make lots of money instantly taking over the cancer industry with a magical super "cure" that takes very personalized care and months, can you?

Exactly. Only people in tin foil hats think that there is "no money to be made" in cures for cancer. That's a downright psychotic suggestion.

@silentnegotiator

In highschool we got a new chemistry teacher. Before becoming a teacher he worked for a pharmeceutical company developing treatments for cancer. During his career his father got cancer and died. He devoted all of his time and effort into his research and wanted to cure that which killed his father. He explained that at the time (1998) his research involved making cells that sought out cancer cells and delivered the chemo treatments to the cancer cells only, that way they would not kill all of the good cells as well. This teacher was way over qualified for the position and when he was explaining all of this to us we all asked why he left that job and wanted to teach at a high school level. His answer that was during his research his boss came to him and said they were not interested in curing the cancer and did not want their treatment to work so well that cancer would no longer be a serious ailment. He left the field because of his disillusionment and realizing he was helping perpetuate something that took his father. Tell him he wears a tin foil hat. I will never forget that teacher or story. It's all about profits and if you cure something a lot of others are making billions off of already you create quite a few enemies. Ignorance truly is bliss for some.

@silent

Ask that same question, but replace "cures for cancer with "solutions to fossil fuel energy."

Maybe that will help you see how things really work.