Alejandro
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Alejandro
@dronico
Interested in SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 research literature and clinical reports. Do not consider any of my tweets as medical advice! Not an MD here.
Spain انضم Mayıs 2009
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This is an exciting development!
I lost my beloved husband and soulmate to glioblastoma. He was diagnosed on his first day or retirement after 22 years of military service. He had a successful emergency brain surgery to remove the tumor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center but then had complications due to care issues and underwent other emergency surgeries for brain swelling. He was in the hospital for four weeks.
After discharge he was advised to undergo chemotherapy and radiation. This barbaric treatment was “standard of care” at the time and required before they’d allow him to try immunotherapy (Congress passed the Right to Try a year after he died.) I questioned the doctors saying the brain is the CPU of the body—nothing good could come from radiating the brain. The doctors said there would be no ill effects, and if they did occur it wouldn’t be for 20 years. He did the radiation and suffered from radiation necrosis within 6 months. He lost cognitive abilities and motor skills.
He later got immunotherapy with a great oncologist in Santa Barbara (Dr Dan Greenwald) with Keytruda and Avastin and that was promising in stopping tumor growth, but I think the radiation caused damage that ultimately did him in. It is so tragic. I’m glad that people diagnosed with glioblastoma have better options now. I wish he could have tried this.
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A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days.
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers known.
The therapy, called CARv3-TEAM-E, was developed to overcome a major hurdle in treating solid tumors: their ability to hide from the immune system.
The personalized treatment reprograms a patient’s immune cells to attack the tumor, and in one extraordinary case, nearly eliminated the cancer within just five days. This novel therapy is designed to target multiple features of the tumor at once, a strategy that may help overcome the common challenge of treatment resistance in solid tumors like glioblastoma.
Although the tumors eventually returned, the early outcomes were described as unprecedented. One patient saw a 60% reduction in tumor size that lasted for half a year—an impressive result in a cancer known for its aggressiveness.
The trial’s success marks a major step forward for immunotherapy in brain cancer and raises new hopes for long-term control or even a cure. Researchers are now working to refine the treatment and extend its effects, with the ultimate goal of turning a once-terminal diagnosis into a survivable condition.

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@eneldiluvio @BrianRoemmele Scintillators detect gamma, but the usually have much higher sensitivity than a regular Gm tube and many beta emitters decay emitting gamma too
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@eneldiluvio @BrianRoemmele Testing food is a whole body of technique, but for obvious cases I recommend a scintillator meter. There several “cheap” ones nowadays. I have tested the Radiacode 103.
Hope this helps
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I have advocated for decades to own your own Geiger-Muller tube radiation detector.
I have on with me always and test them weekly.
This is today’s.
Only trust your own LOCAL readings air and food.
I have this one too (BUY ONE): amzn.to/3PzwPX8
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@ElizabethBangs @TthTy62286 @TTSQ_ @ChrisMurphyCT A Circasian proverb says “When an ox/cow enters the palace, it doesn’t become king… the palace becomes a barn.” Was popularized in 2022 by Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş. The clown/circus version is a modern adaptation from 2022, created by British writer Elizabeth Bangs. @grok
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@TthTy62286 @TTSQ_ @ChrisMurphyCT You can't or won't read. Yet you think you're justified in having an opinion. You don't even know your own culture. Just go away, dumbass.
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🔬 #COVIDPersistente y salud mental: es crucial diferenciar entre síntomas.
Un artículo reciente destaca que muchos pacientes post-COVID presentan fatiga, apatía y fallos ejecutivos (dificultad para planificar, concentrarse…) que pueden confundirse con depresión primaria.

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Fenofibrato
Francisco Mera Cordero@mera_cordero
🔥 LO MÁS ESPERANZADOR: El estudio identifica que dos fármacos YA APROBADOS por la FDA (fenofibrato y NaPB) lograron restaurar esta vía y aliviar los síntomas en modelos experimentales, al reactivar la reparación celular. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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youtu.be/-4tjjGrUrVw
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks with Yanis Varoufakis about the unsettling rise of AI-generated deepfakes, using Varoufakis’s own experience as one of the most synthesised figures on YouTube as a chilling case study.

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@climatologia_ua me cuestan de creer los valores de PM que reporta ahora mismo mi medidor (con certificado de calibración) en el norte de San Vicente. ¿Alguien tiene datos para comparar, además d los de Rabassa? Saludos
#calima

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RT @GVA112: 🛫El @ALC_Airport realiza hoy un #simulacro general de accidente aéreo para el que activará medios aéreos, marítimos y terrestre…
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@ADoss74 Approbation studies in USSR clinics (1987)
Antitumor action of Larifan (experimental and clinical, 1991)
Evaluation of enzyme activities in volunteers (clinical, 1991)
Preliminary clinical antitumor observations (80s-90s)
Herpes and STD treatment observations (ongoing since 80s
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Type 3 interferon, gamma series , rather than the purported type alpha , is the predominant interferon secreted by epithelial cells .Could gamma IFn been used here to reduce the occurrence of CovId in vulnerable cancer populations? Has a molecule capable of inducing any type of IFn, locally, exist? Such a drug may have a longer life in the mucosa.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Don Vinh@DonaldVinh
Our work at COVIDhge showed 🧬mutations or auto-Abs to type I IFN caused severe COVID, suggesting IFN could be used against COVID. Now, an RCT proves IFN📉 COVID👇🏼: Interferon-α Nasal Spray Prophylaxis Reduces COVID-19 in Cancer Patients academic.oup.com/cid/article/do…
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