What I'm saying is, we should know everything about cancer cells by now, and just be working on drugs to stop it. All this time I was under the impression that we understood what Cancer was, how it spread and were just looking for a drug to stop it, as it turns out we didn't have the foggiest clue as to what we were fighting, First rule, Know your enemy... Just think of all the Cancer patients that have been used as guinea pigs... I wonder if they know the docs didn't know what the hell they were doing?
Yes, and I should have to fend off Fox News babes with a pointy stick--not that I would.
Man is not God. It does take time to find vital information, and often too late for many.
A lot of fundamentals are known about cancer in general, but since there are so many types of cancers, each with different mutations, it takes years to study the onset and manifestation of each.
Unfortunately, while there are many cancers which display mutations in a particular gene (one particular gene mutation= a specific cancer), there aren't many single genes that are implicated in being causative of many cancers.
It sounds like this new gene may fall into the latter group.
http://www.therazor.org/oldroot/Summer02/actup.htm