RE: telomerase cancer vaccine

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 22:26:47 MST

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    > At 12:10 PM 3/19/03 +1030, Emlyn wrote:
    >
    > >What about if we find out down the
    > >track that there are really good reasons to sometimes turn
    > telomerase on?
    >
    Damien replied:
    > There probably are unless you want to perish at the Hayflick
    > limit, but you
    > can probably do without telomerase for a while, until the tumors are
    > extirpated, then switch it back on.

    How do you switch it back on, when your immune system is doing a
    seek-and-destroy on Telomerase producing cells? AFAIK, you can't get the
    immune system to stop killing things once it starts. OTOH, IANAI, IANAMB,
    IANAS!

    Emlyn

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