It’s my humble guess....that within ten years...we will have some ability to find cancer within your body (stage one episode) and somehow turn it off from spreading. You might still die from cancer, but it’ll be twenty-five years later.
The cure for cancer is just around the corner . . .
After seeing my brother defeat leukemia twice, I’m always interested in seeing advancements in cancer fighting technologies. This is interesting to say the least.
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Instead of drugs, take minerals to bolster your immune response. Of particular use is iodine, which facilitates apoptosis, the natural death of abnormal cells.
Okay, so:
Step 1) Isolate the gene(s) necessary for cell migration and invasion. They may be homologous to the gene in C. elegans, but are probably more complex (more proteins involved, more control mechanisms).
Step 2) Develop drugs to target those genes, or if those genes cause markers to be expressed on the surfaces of those cells, target the markers. This is complicated by the fact that some normal cells—notably immune system cells—need to invade other tissues in order to function correctly. The big problem with cancer is that the treatment always hits normal cells in addition to the cancer cells.
Step 3) Assuming a drug to stop cell invasion is successfully developed, hit the cancer with a cocktail of drugs meant to stop invasion and growth at the same time.
This sounds like a new avenue against which to target cancer therapy, but it will not be a silver bullet. Cancer is too complex, and the difficulty of finding a therapy that targets the cancer and not healthy cells is nearly insurmountable. Also, it will be more than a decade before anything hits the market. And that is speaking optimistically.
During the worm’s normal development, a cell known as the anchor cell breaks through a structure called the basement membrane, which initially separates the uterus from the vulva.....
As far as I know, the basement membrane separates the skin cells from the underlying tissue. An epithelial cancer is considered invasive when it has breached the basement membrane, which gives it access to the underlying tissue and allows it to metastasize all over the body. Most skin cancers initially metastasize through direct extension. I don’t know where the author got the info that the basement membrane separates the uterus from the vulva. And this is in the very respectable Scientific American? To me, this makes the entire premise suspect. And just a side comment......I was in cancer detection for decades and came to the conclusion that the Group/Person funding any research project WILL get the result they desire. Sad, but true.
Your immune system should stop cancer.
But for many people it doesn't.
There is no cure for cancer yet, only exotic treatments.
I don't think there will be any real cures, until it is figured out how to get the patients immune system working against cancer.
There are some examples of actual "Miracle cures", but I believe the immune system finally gets on the case, for unknown reasons. - tom
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