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by stzup7 2704 days ago
When an article presents findings about curing cancer it's an immediate red flag. Cancer is not a single disease but plethora of different diseases/types of tumours with different behaviours and cures. You don't treat a breast cancer the same way as a lung cancer or brain cancer. Even talking about "brain cancer" is very generic and covers a wide range of tumours that are treated differently.
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From the article:

"In an attempt to understand how the virus works, researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand discovered in 2017 that the virus binds to a receptor called ANTXR1, which is active in more than 60 percent of the cancers in humans."