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llamatr0n on scored.co
9 months ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
5 minutes reaearch and I found 7 examples of recently developed cures.
* CRISPR Technology for Blood Disorders: The gene editing therapy CASGEVY, using CRISPR/Cas9, can now provide a “curative, one-time treatment” for beta-thalassemia
* Cervical Cancer. Pre-treatment with two established chemotherapy drugs, a recent international trial reduced deaths from cervical cancer by 40% and relapses by 35%.
* Quizartinib as a routine treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with a specific genetic mutation.
* Cure for a Rare Immunodeficiency—Activated PI3-Kinase Delta Syndrome (APDS).
* Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C - A typical course now cures the majority (95%) of those treated.
* CAR-T immunotherapy, available in the US, China, and Europe, can now send certain blood cancers (like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children) into durable, long-term remission—outcomes that many top oncologists deem curative in a subset of patients
and sadly
* Gene-editing for Sickle Cell Disease - in clinical trials, 96.6% of participants were disease-free after treatment.
right? a lot of modern medicine sucks, especially the obvious focus on keeping you buying meds rather than curing you, but it's not all doom and gloom. the fact that we can shrug off most bacterial infections or that diseases like tuberculosis aren't a death sentence outside of happening to a super-robust 20-year-old who can afford to rest, that's nothing short of amazing.
medieval people weren't dying in droves from little scratches like we're led to believe, but if you got badly sick you did pretty much just have to stay in bed and hope for the best. we are much safer from illnesses and injury complications today.
* CRISPR Technology for Blood Disorders: The gene editing therapy CASGEVY, using CRISPR/Cas9, can now provide a “curative, one-time treatment” for beta-thalassemia
* Cervical Cancer. Pre-treatment with two established chemotherapy drugs, a recent international trial reduced deaths from cervical cancer by 40% and relapses by 35%.
* Quizartinib as a routine treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with a specific genetic mutation.
* Cure for a Rare Immunodeficiency—Activated PI3-Kinase Delta Syndrome (APDS).
* Direct-Acting Antivirals for Hepatitis C - A typical course now cures the majority (95%) of those treated.
* CAR-T immunotherapy, available in the US, China, and Europe, can now send certain blood cancers (like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children) into durable, long-term remission—outcomes that many top oncologists deem curative in a subset of patients
and sadly
* Gene-editing for Sickle Cell Disease - in clinical trials, 96.6% of participants were disease-free after treatment.
medieval people weren't dying in droves from little scratches like we're led to believe, but if you got badly sick you did pretty much just have to stay in bed and hope for the best. we are much safer from illnesses and injury complications today.