Posted on 06/05/2010 4:37:00 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
CHICAGO — It's way too soon to declare success, but an experimental drug for lung cancer patients with a certain gene showed extraordinary promise in early testing, doctors reported at a cancer conference on Saturday.
More than 90 percent of the 82 patients in a study saw their tumors shrink after two months on the drug, Pfizer Inc.'s crizotinib (crih-ZAH-tin-ib), researchers reported.
Doctors had expected only about 10 percent of these very sick patients to respond to the drug, according to one of the study's leaders, Dr. Yung-Jue Bang
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Quick, call it a success before Obama care politicizes it!
Good news indeed.
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It means that those w/ this type of cancer who possess this particular gene may be helped by this new treatment. I think the article goes on to say that about 4% of those w/ lung cancer have this gene. If it’s the same treatment I’ve heard about elsewhere, the treatment somehow suppresses the cells — sort of like BP trying to cap off the oil flow. So it’s terrific progress, making it a likely path for other treatments to be developed.
WOW, thanks for the info. I see now that corn and products high in Inositol is highly recommended
Thanks for the clarification. I thought that the treatment was using a particular gene so that all lung cancer patients would have a 90%, or better, chance of survivability
It means only one out of every twenty two cases are "eligible". (10,000 out of 220,000).
That’s what I was looking for. It’s a step in the right direction though
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Light em if you got em.
Sadly, if I heard there was a bonafide cure for lung cancer and emphysema I would start smoking again and be only too happy to do so! Then again, it would put me in the poor house...but I’ll admit, since I had to quit 5 years ago I have never been the same. Not a very happy existence.
I quit 10 years ago and never have the urge. Keep the faith. It will get better.
Cheers!
In other good news, local TV carried a brief story tonight on a drug which is supposed to be effective against advanced melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer - drug may be available to the public by the beginning of next year - providing Obama doesn’t get hold of it......
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