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Former Member
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I love this project and think it will make a huge difference to cancer patients. I am trying to get people interested in this, but I haven't been able to find a really clear, non-technical article on the project. Any suggestions?
I think that people would be really supportive if they knew about this because the way cancer is currently treated has alot to be desired. In late 2003, I was diagnosed with a really aggressive breast cancer and started treatment with six rounds of the standard chemo. Unfortunately, mum had to move in for three months to look after my baby because I kept on having to go into hospital overnight because of chemo problems (this is highly unusual). Then I had surgery and they discovered that the chemo hadn't really done much, so I had to have four more rounds of a different chemo (which was a doddle compared to the first) and I have also had a year of going to the hospital every three weeks for immunotherapy. We have no way of knowing if any of the treatments of surgery has worked, and the treatments have been rather tiring and time consuming, although so far, so good. Right now, if they get a high risk case like mine, they just seem to throw the pharmacy at it because if it comes back it will be incurable. Of course, improving the survival rate will also be great for oncologists and oncology nurses as well. Unfortunately, I can't upgrade my computer with enough RAM to participate in Defeat Cancer, so I will have to keep on finding AIDS drugs instead, but I don't have a problem with that. |
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Former Member
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 Press releases from WCG and UMDNJ about Help Defeat Cancer seem to have sunk without a trace. We should be getting a Newsletter from WCG real soon now. I keep wondering just how we can get some exposure. I thought that a number of papers would have been interested in a Breast Cancer home computer project. Maybe somebody will pick up on it. Lawrence |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello Christine MH!
I agree, I am sad that I do not have the compute power to work on the HDC workunits! My sister and mother are breast cancer survivors and I know how hard your journey has been, but you sound very optimistic and that is key! So hopefully the HDC research may be a ray of hope for all of us touched by cancer! I send you prayers and positive thoughts on your quest to beat your cancer! Here are some articles I found (plus the press release), maybe some of these will help you convince others to crunch with us! http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=735459 http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=11599 http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/060720/0146050.html |
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Sekerob
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I saw that the Lance Armstrong foundation partnered....can be found at the LiveStrong site and had a look there a few days ago. Did not immediately see anything, but if a place showing and promoting the project and the life after the big C is an argument to hook up with HDC it's very likely to be found there.....
----------------------------------------Staring at the Graphics in UD agent it's almost like looking thru an electronic microscope. By placing different filters / rasters in front, a best view is looked for......the best view then identifies exact or very close the type of the decease, which then allows the immediate adaption of known best treatment/medicine to be applied......once the library is complete, it will accelerate diagnostics tremendously. Like most all, we have a very emotional tie with this evil....1 in 4 loose their life due rampant cell growth......anyway, my 4.5 year old PC eats momentarily thru these Test Sets at a rate of 5 per 12 hours....if 3 machines find an identical result, than that's considered a confirmed match......the more join the sooner output can be fed back to the end-user to the doctors and labs having to do the diagnosis. Someone here phrased that it is almost real-time research and application, and not like many other studies taking many years to evolve. That's what we crunch for.....there's a real urgency. take care
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Former Member
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I Unfortunately, I can't upgrade my computer with enough RAM to participate in Defeat Cancer, so I will have to keep on finding AIDS drugs instead, but I don't have a problem with that. Christine, We work as a team here at WCG. Every work unit we crunch is as valuable as any other in the grand scheme. Every FAAH unit you crunch on your computer is 1 less FAAH unit that might otherwise get crunched on a machine that could crunch a Defeat Cancer unit instead. If you look at it that way then you are assisting the Defeat Cancer project in an indirect way. Keep up the good work, Christine. We wish you all the best in your personal battle with cancer. World Community Grid does a fine job in the technical department and explaining their work at a technical level but they just don't reach out and grab the average person. Oh well, let them do what they do best. There is a team of volunteers working to augment and complement WCG's efforts and make it easier for average folks to understand. They are building a website to spread the word and they seek articles and contributions to publish on their site. Would you be interested in writing about the Help Defeat Cancer project and donating your work? Click on the little little house below my signature to visit that website. I have heard they will soon provide a way for people to contribute articles. You write well, Christine, and I think they would love to have something from you, something that speaks to the average person. Your work will be translated into several other languages so you have the opportunity to make a huge impact. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 24, 2006 3:54:45 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yes, I am definitely interested in writing something on this. I understand why the Defeat Cancer project matters, but I don't think I would have understood the project description if I had read it three years ago.
I am lucky in that there is a targeted treatment that seems to make a really big difference for what I have had and I was able to get it after I had had the less effective treatments. It would be great if all breast cancer patients and all head and neck cancer patients had treatments that were highly likely to work for them. During one of my stays in the hospital, I was on the ward with a patient who had a massive incurable cancer on her face and having such a disfiguring and deadly cancer was very distressing for her. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Christine,
The WCGwiki website team tells me the best way to submit articles to them at this time is to simply email your piece to the webmaster by clicking the webmaster link on the welcome page. Articles done with a simple text editor like Windows Notepad are easiest for them to convert into web pages. Word documents are acceptable too but they're a little more work. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Christine,
I understand you pretty well. Probably as only another cancer patient can do. My last 14 years (now I'm 52) has been a continuous fight with the illness but also with the psicological consecuences. Went to the surgical room 10 times but never let the oncologists use chemo on me. Hope contribute to the best understanding possible of this cruel disease in order to improve the tratments wich are now too empirical and only justified by the lack of better tools. With all my personal symphaty, Roberto Diego |
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Former Member
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I love this project and think it will make a huge difference to cancer patients. I am trying to get people interested in this, but I haven't been able to find a really clear, non-technical article on the project. Any suggestions? I think that people would be really supportive if they knew about this because the way cancer is currently treated has alot to be desired. In late 2003, I was diagnosed with a really aggressive breast cancer and started treatment with six rounds of the standard chemo. Unfortunately, mum had to move in for three months to look after my baby because I kept on having to go into hospital overnight because of chemo problems (this is highly unusual). Then I had surgery and they discovered that the chemo hadn't really done much, so I had to have four more rounds of a different chemo (which was a doddle compared to the first) and I have also had a year of going to the hospital every three weeks for immunotherapy. We have no way of knowing if any of the treatments of surgery has worked, and the treatments have been rather tiring and time consuming, although so far, so good. Right now, if they get a high risk case like mine, they just seem to throw the pharmacy at it because if it comes back it will be incurable. Of course, improving the survival rate will also be great for oncologists and oncology nurses as well. Unfortunately, I can't upgrade my computer with enough RAM to participate in Defeat Cancer, so I will have to keep on finding AIDS drugs instead, but I don't have a problem with that. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi, if its any encoragement, Oxford University in England ran a computer grid against cancer around 2002/2003, and something like a million computers joined them. Its head is working with the World Community Grid now.
But maybe those involved with cancer could publicise the World Grid in the hospitals, and maybe thousands more out of the world's 650 million PC's will join the 350 000 computers that have been connected to WCG. Me I'm very frustrated that more public figures don't call on people to join WCG - maybe President Bush could be persuaded to devote one of his radio talks to urging people to join WCG? Give it a try and best of luck with your treatment. Ian Mordant |
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