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Old 08-12-2004, 09:10 AM  
Tom_PMs
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What kills me is that they wont work on anything from natural plants or animals because you can't patent a drug unless it's all synthetic.

You can probably eat a worm from malasia combined with some fungus from colorado and be cancer free. But you'd never hear of it because nobody profits.

I saw a story a while back about a doctor I think in australia who was injecting melanoma with the common cold virus and it was killing the cancer. Can't patent a naturally occuring virus though, so don't expect it to make world news.
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