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FNC senior medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel on the great potential for a new cancer therapy.
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A great story to tell you about tonight and one in which we always are very cautious about this kind of report.
Because it brings -- that such attendant hopes for those who have cancer.
Scientist.
The University of Pennsylvania study reveals a new treatment that has successfully destroyed.
Cancer cells into patients.
And joining us tonight is doctor Mark Siegel Fox News medical contributor author of -- also unlocking the secret code of sickness and health and -- great to have you with -- this is one of those developments.
That frankly to me sounds just too good to be true.
But you're very hopeful based on what we know right now right.
I am very excited about this it's early.
There we -- it in three patients but those three patients were really in bad shape and we're approaching.
The need for bone marrow transplants instead this strong wiped out the cancer in two out of the three and the other 170% of it was gone.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Then we came up with something -- targeted therapy -- we found the ability to send sells like assassin's.
To the cancer cells and you have less side effects doing that.
Those drugs have been -- about five years now they're very expense does not call.
That's cool targeted -- -- -- -- think big is antibodies actually in the target the tumors with -- we're talks a -- is one.
Avastin is one but but here's what this does this that this therapy is totally revolutionary because you take those terminator -- And you send them into the bald mountain they start to reproduce.
-- you get many colonies and then the then go out in force until the cancer -- -- -- -- To attack the cancer cells and and one of these what are these past.
What they are all the what they are genetically manipulated -- you take a virus and you insert a new gene.
You've got the cells and they clone and you reproduce them and they go and they kill the cancer again it's still call targeted therapy but the big difference here is they reproduce inside the body.
He only one shot one shot and these -- -- in the body.
Forever and they kill the cancer.
One -- and one shot what's the next finance well next up is going to be to try and thousands of people go through FDA trials.
And then it will be marketed put it out there.
And and for folks watching and listening to -- to doctor Marc Siegel.
How long before it might be available to the -- I think listening to us tonight and the results of the study of excited so many scientists but this this is gonna start to really accelerate I predict within about five years this will be available.
Maybe three.
And it's going to be expensive at first that's the problem when you always hear me say how we gonna pay for this I'm worried about that this government pays for a lot of nonsense you Brett.
How about something that's so profoundly beneficial Trevor well wait a failure of the blanket -- the -- minister.
Well I don't know about the blanket but I do know about the money and it's time for this government to get its head on straight on what this kind of circuit -- -- -- for all right.
Doctor Marc Siegel who is no fan by the way of obamacare just said that.
