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Why are the details of Jerry’s cancer journey coming out now, years after the cure. The cynic in me thinks it’s because his popularity is at an all-time low and he’s hoping to score some sympathy votes. 

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6 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

I love it when owners play the “He’s already under contract” card. How many players has he cut while under contract but the guaranteed money was either not onerous or non-existent. 

football teams can’t violate contracts.  if the money isn’t guaranteed it isn’t guaranteed and they can cut players.

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11 hours ago, kevwun said:

Is this drug only available to rich assholes?

Gonna venture a guess here that we may be seeing cutting edge technology. Seems Jones claimed it's all gone from his body. That sounds virtually impossible to me. In the past, if one cell survives, it possibly has some kind of immunity and then it begins to multiply. Next thing you know you have an even bigger problem.

It occurs to me that maybe the new way of treating cancer will be to use this tech on you every time there's a recurrence. I just can't imagine anything that will get rid of every single cell. I say this because in the old chemo days, they nearly killed you (and your own immunity) to get rid of all the cancer - and your body is destroyed and it still didn't work. We've seen Jones now for the last year or two looking none the worse for wear, so maybe PD1 will become the new standard, and eventually available to everyone.

A friend last year got a grim diagnosis, but other friends who know what they're talking about sound like the prognosis has turned around. So fingers crossed (not for Jones, mind you).

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4 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

Gonna venture a guess here that we may be seeing cutting edge technology. Seems Jones claimed it's all gone from his body. That sounds virtually impossible to me. If one cell survives, it possibly has some kind of immunity or some kind of strength against PD-1 technology. And then it begins to multiply. Next thing you know you have an even bigger problem.

It occurs to me that maybe the new way of treating cancer will be to use this tech on you every time there's a recurrence. I say this because in the old chemo days, they nearly killed you (and your own immunity) to get rid of all the cancer - and your body is destroyed. We've seen Jones now for the last year or two looking none the worse for wear, so maybe PD1 will become the new standard, and eventually available to everyone.

immunotherapy is widely available.  each of these drugs have to go through trials for particular cancers and back in 2010 he probably got one that was being evaluated for his type of melanoma.  and PD1 is not a drug, it’s a drug target. 

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