Accelerating the Search for New Cancer Therap...n Drug Screening to Treat Common Childhood Cancer

A study led by scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) reveals a new method of identifying drugs to treat children suffering from fatal cancers for which an effective treatment has not been found. Rather than developing a new drug from scratch, which is a complicated and time-consuming process, they tried a different approach: in the lab, they tested existing drugs on cancer stem cells from young patients with neuroblastoma, one of the common cancers of infants and children. Cancer stem cells are the very cells that scientists suspect are responsible for relapses. The study is published in the August 18 advance online edition of EMBO Molecular Medicine.

The idea of repurposing existing medications is not new, but testing them on the cells isolated directly from children and that are thought to be responsible for the spread and regrowth of their tumours is novel. According to the study's principal investigator, Dr. David Kaplan, there is an urgent need to develop new treatments for neuroblastoma. Less than 40 per cent of patients over the age of one survive this cancer, and the disease usually relapses, aggressively spreading or metastasizing to other parts of the body.........

Japan designer Mio I-Zawa made a mechanical tumor that grows the more CPU is used on computer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJyBy_cgTtA

I think he did not get the idea of Distributed computing... We need a device that is growing if there are some spare CPU cycles !

According to some scientists, here is their information:
1. Illness bacteria exists in the body, just not activated
2. Cancer is linked to bacteria that has been activated
3. Vitamin C studies by Linus Pauling suggests that the vitamin acts as a radiation in the body at certain levels if directly goes into bloodstream
4. If the body's temperature is below certain degrees, the immune system is compromised and won't be able to activate antibodies, for example, just to digest food, the stomach needs to reach about 80 degrees farenheit and to ward off infectious diseases, etc. the body needs to reach about 40 degress celcius.
5. Harvard is currently analyzing communication between pathogens and how to interrupt their communication patterns before they reproduce to the point of causing degenaritive diseases
6. Pathogens love acidic environments
7. Pollutants in our water promote acidic environments
8. Saliva is supposed to neutralize ph factor of foods but cannot do so with so many chemicals in the food or liquid trying to digest
9. There are clinics in the world combatting cancer with oxygen
10. Cancer cannot survive in oxygen rich environment, however we need about 200 oxygen litres a day and must fight for right to use oxygen tank therapy in hospitals in the states, the oxygen is only given up until the point that the patient can survive further radiation

X-Post to MONK DUCK's news on the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,33234

Also X-Post to Alver's Childhood cancer related news: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,32612

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@Admin, could you please insert "Childhood" into the this thread's opening post title.

thx.