Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
ORLANDO -- Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines. These findings suggest that Simian virus 40 (SV40) may "participate" in the development of the blood cancer, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
ORLANDO -- Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines. These findings suggest that Simian virus 40 (SV40) may "participate" in the development of the blood cancer, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
HALF of them. Is that statistically significant?
Who knows? What if half of them had eaten at Burger King? Would that lead you to conclude that Burger King causes cancer? Causation is a *very* difficult thing to establish, and nobody is served by jumping to conclusions.
Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
ORLANDO -- Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines.
This news is about as hot as last week's pancake.
Speculation about SV40 and human cancers has been going on for years. Thus far, the evidence for causality is pretty weak, though I do know an oncologist who thinks it's for real.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
ORLANDO -- Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines. These findings suggest that Simian virus 40 (SV40) may "participate" in the development of the blood cancer, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
HALF of them. Is that statistically significant?
No, it is not.
I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out why.
Monkey virus may hold clue for development of common blood cancer
ORLANDO -- Examination of tumors in patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma found that half of them show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines. These findings suggest that Simian virus 40 (SV40) may "participate" in the development of the blood cancer, say researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Idiot. How many of them visited chiropractors? Well?
LOL!!!! You guys remind me of the cackling hens down at Country Gardens nursing facility....crowing sneers and jabs during their daily Bridge sessions.
An unknown number of Americans were infected with tainted vaccine. Research is inching us along to that conclusion.
You're a bit out of touch, aren't you? The SV40 has been known for a long time. The question is whether it's doing us any harm.
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I'll continue to post articles that are intresting and thought provoking....
You can only continue to do something if you've already done it at least once.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
The SV40 has been known for a long time. The question is whether it's doing us any harm.
No Dave. Your goose stepping cronies argue causal relationship as well, thus began the thread as Jeff jumped me like a flea on a Greyhound. ( Incidently, Jeff knows OJ is innocent)
The causal relationship is not well-established in humans. Some studies show it exists, some do not. I've actually researched it. Have you? Or is your study just restricted to reading one article?
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Now. Open wide and lets give you a jigger of OPV grown on infected rhesus kidney tissue. We'll see how you do.
I had my doses of OPV as a kid, so there's at least some chance I've already been infected with SV40. It doesn't keep me up nights.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
No Dave. Your goose stepping cronies argue causal relationship as well,
Argue? There's no argument. The study offers no evidence of causal relationship. Several people tried to explain that to you, but as usual it flew in one ear and out the other.
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I'm sure there are quite a few lurkers in this group who aren't familiar with the issue, so I posted the interesting article for purpose of general information.
I suspect you underestimate the lurkers. Assuming they're not smarter than you is a bad assumption.
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I suspect you underestimate the lurkers. Assuming they're not smarter
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you is a bad assumption.
Good point. I suspect that the reason some "lurk" while others post is that the lurkers are there to read and learn, and are not much interested in replying to silliness or getting into a flame war. They generally unlurk to engage in an intelligent thread to ask questions or post comments if they feel they have something positive to offer. If this isn't a sign of higher intelligence....................................
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