So, you're saying that you've cured cancer?
Yes, we have.
Posted on 05/13/2008 1:05:41 PM PDT by decimon
Researchers study several compounds to stop or prevent cancer OU Public Affairs
Oklahoma City, OK -- While researching new ways to stop the progression of cancer, researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, have discovered a compound that has shown to prevent cancer in the laboratory.
The compound, which still faces several rounds of clinical trials, successfully stopped normal cells from turning into cancer cells and inhibited the ability of tumors to grow and form blood vessels. If successful tests continue, researchers eventually hope to create a daily pill that would be taken as a cancer preventive.
“This compound was effective against the 12 types of cancers that it was tested on,” said Doris Benbrook, Ph.D., principle investigator and researcher at the OU Cancer Institute. “Even more promising for health care is that it prevents the transformation of normal cells into cancer cells and is therefore now being developed by the National Cancer Institute as a cancer prevention drug.”
The synthetic compound, SHetA2, a Flex-Het drug, directly targets abnormalities in cancer cell components without damaging normal cells. The disruption causes cancer cells to die and keeps tumors from forming.
Flex-Hets or flexible heteroarotinoids are synthetic compounds that can change certain parts of a cell and affect its growth. Among the diseases and conditions being studied for treatment with Flex-Hets are polycystic kidney disease, kidney cancer and ovarian cancer.
Benbrook and her research team have patented the Flex-Het discovery and hope to start clinical trials for the compound within 5 years. If the compound is found to be safe, it would be developed into a pill to be taken daily like a multi-vitamin to prevent cancer.
The compound also could be used to prevent cancer from returning after traditional radiation and chemotherapy treatments, especially in cancers that are caught in later stages such as ovarian cancer where life expectancy can be as short as 6 months after treatment.
“It would be a significant advancement in health care if this pill is effective in preventing cancer, and we could avoid the severe toxicity and suffering that late stage cancer patients have to experience,” Benbrook said.
I wonder how much it will “cost.”
Too good to be true?
So, you're saying that you've cured cancer?
Yes, we have.
Have many laboratories come down with the type of cancer this chemical compound prevents?
I report, you decide. ;-)
We can only hope this isn't one of those things you never hear of again.
LOL...
first zombies, now vampires...
Or Retrievers.
see also
http://mct.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/6/1814
Tongzu Liu1,, Bethany Hannafon, Lance Gill, William Kelly and Doris Benbrook may be on the news shortly. It appears ovarian tumors were the trial target.
So where is this lab and how do we get there? Do we have to live in the lab or can we just visit there from time to time? I imagine that if we have to be physically present in that lab in order to avoid cancer, said lab is going to be very crowded.
Or were they just saying that cancer was prevented in the DOG, a LABrador retriever?
Just askin'.
I was hoping this would be about dogs since several of my friends’ hunting dogs have been afflicted with cancer.
Tag for later...
When cancer is licked, will health care costs go down?
You would think so. It should. Therefore...no.
"The synthetic compound, SHetA2".
ShetA1 tasted bad.
There’s an argument that says each time we cure something, costs go up because we live longer and we catch more things instead of dying early of the first thing we catch.
Nah. Look how much we pay even when their cures don't work.
for later reading
I believe that this is one of the very promising approaches that has been discussed. If this works as hoped, and with few side effects, it will revolutionize treatment of many types of cancers. Prevention drugs? Who knows... that cost may prove much higher than the benefits, but I could see it I guess.
Maybe they’ll revoke the smoking bans - which I, a non-smoker, consider to be one of the greatest infringements on civil rights yet enforced by our governments!!!
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