Cancer cure may be available in two years!
Posted on 09/19/2007 4:59:40 PM PDT by Stoat
Smoke’em if you got’em.
ping for future.
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Utterly preposterous.
Not to mention cruel and deceitful.
Dumb paranoid comment of the week.
My theory for the cure:
Chromosomes have telomeres on the end, to protect the DNA from getting destroyed through division. Each time the cell divides however, the telomere gets a bit shorter. The only reason it doesn’t disappear completely is because of the enzyme telomerase, which helps regenerate it. In cancer cells however, cell division is taking place extremely rapidly. The telomeres of the defective DNA are getting cut shorter much quicker. Since this is DNA of the cancer cells, we don’t want that DNA, we don’t want malignant cells. If we could find a competitive inhibitor to the enzyme telomerase and inject it into the cancerous cells, perhaps the telomerase would stop working and would not regenerate telomeres on cancer cell chromosomes. Thus, due to rapid mitosis (cellular division), the cell would ultimately kill itself because the telomeres would disslove quicker and delete the DNA in the nucleus of the cancer cell.
But hopefully the cure will be here via this guy.
All of this done without the need of John Edwards.
Here’s hoping!!
What?! We didn’t have to suck stem cells from murdered children to accomplish this?!
well that was upbeat and optimistic :)
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Just think how much of this has been prevented by people like John Edwards.
The abilities of the cells of participants aged over 50 were lower than average, and those of cancer patients even lower.
Perhaps, perhaps not. We shall see.
I am just excited. I am an apheresis technician.
“Utterly preposterous.
Not to mention cruel and deceitful.”
I agree. This may or may not be an additional effective bullet in the armamentarium against cancer, but it is unethical to hype things this way. Cancer is so very complex. People need to understand that every cell in our bodies has the same DNA instruction set, but some cells become heart muscle, some become skeletal muscle, some become neurons, some become the lining of the air sacs in your lung, etc. etc. etc. We don’t understand fully how this happens, and are just now starting to look at how some cells (e.g. stem cells) can maintain the ability to become other cell types. Cancer is in some ways the reverse of this process. Cancer occurs when cells that are already differentiated go back to a more primitive state. The mechanisms that define going in either direction are very complex and poorly understood.
We are losing many good people to this insidious disease.
My Bro-in-law is a cancer specialist here in S.E. Michigan and he has been having great success with treatment of lung cancer.
A couple weeks ago I had a long conversation with his son (my nephew of course) who is also a doctor and he explained to me the politics that goes on within the medical community.
Most doctors only follow established "protocols" when treating cancer. Kinda like continuing to pitch fast balls to Barry Bonds. Sameo, sameo.......
He is constantly changing his treatments and trying to bring aboard other doctors who basically belong to the old school.
Then 6 months later, there will be an article in the AMA relevant to new successful treatments of different cancers and lo and behold, that's what my bro-in-law has been trying to tell his counterparts.........
bottom line is, it's all political and most doctors, afraid of the legal system, will only treat their patients with pre-established (and in many cases useless) medical treatments.
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