Mayo reports dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study

MinnPost.com ^ | Jun 19 2009 1 | Susan Perry

[kellynla]

Excellent news!

Thanks for posting!

[Covenantor]

bump

[JoeProBono]

[KoRn]

I hope they hurry up and get every cure they can to market ASAP. Soon, R&D may vanish due to socialism choking innovation out of the market.

[randog]

It will be labeled “Unavailable” to those that eat government cheese.

[G Larry]

It won’t matter if they get it to market before Obama-care is in place.
It will simply be deemed “too expensive” to distribute if you’re not “in the ruling class”. And, as in Canada, private clinics will be illegal.

[Nervous Tick]

>> It will be labeled “Unavailable” to those that eat government cheese.

And, hey, pretty soon, who WON’T be eating government cheese?

Even if you don’t WANT government cheese, it will be rammed down your throat.

Resistance will be futile.

And the cheese will be moldy, anyway...

[Nervous Tick]

>> It will simply be deemed “too expensive” to distribute if you’re not “in the ruling class”.

Yeah, soon, the only ones that will be eligible to have their prostate cancer cured will be Pelosi, Hillary, and Debbie Stabenow.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Under HusseinCare, these pts would most likely not have been approved for the experimental treatments.
Every American at some point in their lives will face a medical crisis.
Or have one of their loved ones facing a medical crisis.
If Obama and the Democrat Party get their way-
prayer and back alley home remedies will be their only recourse.

[mamelukesabre]

neuter the bulldykes

[hunter112]

"and the tenacious insistence of the wife of one of the patients"

This is the part that gets me. Usually removal of the prostate means that the man has to pee in a diaper, and is "non-functional", if you get my drift.

Methinks she had an ulterior motive...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Posted on the same day as the death of Gary Papa, longtime sportscaster for Philadelphia's ABC channel 6, who battled prostate cancer for five years. Bald as a result of his chemo and often in "excruciating pain", he continued his regular sports reporting on and off 'til as late as May 13 of this year, and appeared on air just last week to help advertise this Sunday's "Race 4 Your Life", the annual Father's Day marathon for prostate cancer research which he had been championing for seven years. Always positive and smiling, a favorite of fans and sports figures alike, he was only 54. Some day approaches like the one in this article will put and end to the terrible disease of prostate cancer and the kind of sadness which lies over Philly town tonight......

RIP, Gary Papa.....

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Not only could they not find cancer outside the prostate, they couldn’t find it inside either.”

Pretty incredible.

[Daffynition]

For all those for which this possible cure came to late, including Gary Papa, let us hope. Let us hope.

[Grizzled Bear]

Even if you don’t WANT government cheese, it will be rammed down your throat.

"When the revolution comes, everyone will eat peaches and cream!"

"But I don't like peaches and cream."

"When the revolution comes, you WILL like peaches and cream!"

[cva66snipe]

This is the part that gets me. Usually removal of the prostate means that the man has to pee in a diaper, and is "non-functional", if you get my drift. Methinks she had an ulterior motive...

I doubt it. Simply because there is another surgical procedure that can sometimes stop the cancer especially the slower less aggressive variant. The prostate is left intact and the means of producing testosterone is removed instead which causes no bladder ill effects. Even at that the body still produces a certain amount of testosterone and that is what Prostate Cancer feeds on. Thankfully more research is being done and more knowledge gained.

[FReepaholic]

...“But the pathologist came back saying he couldn’t find the cancer,” says Kwon. “They ended up removing the prostate. Not only could they not find cancer outside the prostate, they couldn’t find it inside either.”...

Ok, they lost me. If there was no cancer, why remove the prostate?

[GovernmentShrinker]

They had to remove it in order to tear it to pieces and find out if there was any cancer inside. Remember that they'd never seen any treatment succeed in completely eliminating prostate cancer before, plus When Blute opened the patient on the operating table, he saw a lot of blanched scar tissue — usually a sign of advanced cancer. He sent tissue samples to the pathology lab (standard procedure) and, while waiting for the results, went out to prepare the patient’s family for what he was sure was going to be bad news.

So when they first looked inside, things looked bad, as if there had been (or still was) widespread cancer. Even though the surrounding tissue came back negative for cancer (apparently before the prostate was actually removed, though that isn't entirely clear), it still seemed extremely unlikely that the interior of the prostate -- the original source of the cancer -- was completely cancer-free.

[spectre]

Bump!