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New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

189 pointsby gradus_adtoday at 3:09 PM68 commentsview on HN

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xbartoday at 6:26 PM

I lost my brother yesterday to cancer. I hope one day this can save lives. Go Beavs.

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quantummagictoday at 7:43 PM

Hope this makes it to people soon. Have a family friend who was diagnosed with cancer a few days ago. It was here in Canada, so they offered her assisted suicide, literally within 30 seconds after telling her she had cancer. She didn't even really process the diagnosis before they were offering to help her die. They didn't offer to try any experimental medicine.

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RomanPushkintoday at 6:20 PM

Experiencing cancer in my family I can tell for sure all of that buzz is quite exciting, but in the last 5 years there haven't been breakthroughs that would significantly improve outcomes for an average patient.

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MagicMoonlighttoday at 9:30 PM

That sounds extremely promising

msietoday at 4:29 PM

They should give it to some people with fatal stages of cancer.

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mcc1anetoday at 3:53 PM

in mice?

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fnord77today at 7:35 PM

Command-F "mice"

yup. every time

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esafaktoday at 5:06 PM

If it worked, how much might it roughly cost per treatment, at scale?

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Flere-Imsahotoday at 5:44 PM

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dyauspitrtoday at 4:15 PM

Anything that doesn’t genetically target cancer cells is just not the solution long term. Any progress is good though.

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