Researchers identify 'switch' to activate cancer cell death

I know that these kind of write-ups by universities tend to overstate the importance of research. However, it's nice to see a write up that at least on the surface goes into some fairly interesting detail and actually does NOT seem to overstate the significance or imply this will result in a single cure for cancer in just a few easy steps.

It’s nice to read these articles as someone with advanced stage testicular cancer and a 50% 5 year survival. Current treatment is chemo + surgery.<p>Really appreciate all the smart people in this field. Thank you for the work you do!

I really enjoyed this episode of Peter Attia&#x27;s podcase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peterattiamd.com&#x2F;keithflaherty2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peterattiamd.com&#x2F;keithflaherty2&#x2F;</a>. They spend a lot of time breaking down the difficulty in cancer treatment, changes over the past decade, the importance of multimodality therapy, and a lot more. A highlight was Attia&#x27;s analogy to explain antigen presentation.

[not what the article is about, but related topic]<p>I first heard of dichloroacetic acid about 15 years ago - a cheap drug that also killed cancer cells by allowing mitochondria to induce apoptosis in the cancer cells and not in healthy cells.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dichloroacetic_acid#Cancer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dichloroacetic_acid#Cancer</a><p>It doesn&#x27;t appear to have gotten a lot of research into what would be a safe dosage, seemingly because it&#x27;s an old drug that can no longer be patented.

It seems like every week there is a new story about some strategy or breakthrough that holds promise to treat or cure cancer, yet we&#x27;re still stuck with the same treatments, mainly chemo, surgery, and radiation, and generally low survival rates for advanced cancers. Immunotherapy has been hyped for decades yet far from being a cure. Maybe one day it will happen.

Anyone know of any breakthroughs in treating peritoneal mesothelioma?

Switch to life 8)

So have cancer cells... in fact I believe that&#x27;s the problem.