Today I found out that Cuba has a vaccine for cancer. WOW!
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/cimavax-roswell-park-cancer-institute/
I thought, “Oh, it’s Cuba and they probably don’t have all the wiz-bang testing / double blind trials and all.” But I was wrong. Other countries are involved in this too. The clinical experience began in 1995. Up to now, five phase I-II clinical trials have concluded in Cuba, two phase II have also concluded, one in Cuba and another one in Canada and the UK, and a phase II-III trial with an optimized schedule as well as a phase III trial are currently in progress in Cuba.
This vaccine is for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) . This was the first registration of a therapeutic vaccine in Cuba and also the first registration of a lung cancer vaccine IN THE WORLD. The Cubans have been openly working on this vaccine for about twenty years. The adjuvant in the vaccine is derived from olive oil and actually sounds a lot better than the typical stuff commonly used in vaccines here state side.
Anyhow, for whatever reason it came to my attention that yesterday Cuba re-opened it’s Washington D.C. embassy after 54 years.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-54-years-cuba-reopens-embassy-in-washington-on-monday-2015-07-19
That’s nice. Then I started thinking…
Didn’t I read / hear somewhere once that Lee Harvey Oswald (the guy that shot Kennedy) was working on cancer research in Cuba? So I Googled “Lee Harvey Oswald Cuba cancer research”
http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/lee-harvey-oswald-and-cuba/vCJW6Z/
http://www.meandlee.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mputN6MhfQc
Jack Ruby (the guy that killed Oswald) oddly enough died of cancer in prison. What a coincidence.
Mostly, I’m impressed that the Cancer Research place in Cuba is called ROSWELL.
