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Sekerob
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totally agree with we45dfa35gh3476...the research has to be multi disciplinary, multi pronged as there is no single answer to figthing the decease...... furthermore the question was posed by a Genetics Professor: Who's Stem cells?.... the comment was, that they in the essence hold the same genetic material of fitting donor (self, direct relatives), thus could re-introduce the same flaw, that in the first place caused the development of the cancer....
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Well, imagine what the radiation and kemo drugs do. They lower your immune system overall and kill mass amount of immune system cells. Like antibotics they lower your immune system and kill off natural good bacteria which balances the bad bacteria. Modern medicine really isn't fully modern. Probotics are probably the way to go. We need treatment plans that strengthen the immune system and body while targeting cancer and bad bacteria. Stem cell technology holds tremendous potential against cancer and a myriad of human illness. This is truly the answer and way to go. Everyone involved in cancer would love to move away from slash and burn techniques for dealing with cancer, but the technology is still a ways off and chemotherapy and radiotherapy are at least clinically proven to work overall, although they still fail far too many patients. There is a great interest in reducing the use of chemotherapy because of its highly problematic side effects, so perhaps the Help Defeat Cancer project will help with that. There are cancer vaccines in the pipeline to prevent the cancer in the first place or prevent recurrence, but nothing that seems anywhere near capable of tackling an inoperable cancer, so there will continue to be a need for chemotherapy, at least in the short term. There has been some success in using drugs that provide passive immunity, such as the monoclonal antibodies, against inoperable cancers, but even these seem to work best when combined with traditional chemotherapy. One possibility, though, may be to use multiple antibodies and inhibitors. Maybe the Defeat Cancer Project will help scientists to figure out which combos are most likely to work on the different types. Although your understanding of the problems of chemo is a bit wonky (it doesn't kill off bacteria, but white blood cells; stem cells can be problematic, since rogue stem cells are now believed to possibly be behind metastasis), your overall point is a good one: the ideal cancer treatment would be one that works with the body's immune system and current therapies cause too much collateral damage. |
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18 Aug 2006: complications. complications - sigh: Core Needle Biopsy Gives An Accurate Picture Of Gene Expression In Whole Tumour
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060818015803.htm |
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we45dfa35gh3476
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MethylGene's HDAC Inhibitor, MGCD0103, Enters Phase II Clinical Trial in Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Hodgkin's Lymphoma:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=156345 Kosan Names Its Lead Hsp90 Inhibitor Compounds: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060822/sftu033.html?.v=72 Northwest Biotherapeutics To Present Update On Brain Cancer Clinical Data: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=50119 Perceptronix Receives Health Canada License for Early Lung Cancer Test: http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/August2006/21/c7016.html First Steps To A Cancer Vaccine: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=edell&id=4482597 |
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Former Member
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nice thread.
----------------------------------------how about contacting these researchers, advising them of our existence, and asking them for problems that we can crunch... [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 22, 2006 10:29:55 PM] |
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HIV drug stops cervical cancer in laboratory test.
Hmmm, drugs with dual roles? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060825/hl_nm/cancer_cream_dc |
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"New Method Of Gene Therapy Offers Hope For Treatment Of Melanoma, Other Common Cancers
A team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has demonstrated sustained regression of advanced melanoma in a study of 17 patients by genetically engineering patients' own white blood cells to recognize and attack cancer cells..." The article goes on to describe the procedure and to state that it might be used against other cancers as well. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060901112104.htm |
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Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020 according to the World Health Organization(W.H.O)
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/ |
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we45dfa35gh3476
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US scientists 'decode' breast and bowel cancer genomes:
http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/news/newsarchive/2006/september/17609710 |
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Some more information about mutant genes and cancer: http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/15466523.htm
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