Posted on 05/31/2012 1:16:07 AM PDT by neverdem
If Dr. Weissman and his team were on to something that could possibly be a “cure”, you could rest assured his research would disapear along with Dr. Weissman and his team.
There is huge money in treating cancer, not in curing it.
Genetic programming has alwas been the solution to cancer. Turning off the CD47 “do not attack me” flag makes progress on that front.
“There is huge money in treating cancer, not in curing it.”
Isn’t it a shame and a sin that we live in a society that a statement like yours is true.
i would agree with CapnJack ... people have A LOT invested in ‘managing’ cancer.. not curing it.
i really hope Weissman and his team have the research spread across the net, just in case.
There is huge money in treating cancer, not in curing it.
Ohhhh, how right you are. I hate the ribbons and walks and cancer charities because the $ and attention airways goes in the wrong direction. Oncology can be barbaric today.
Cancer can’t be cured because it isn’t a disease. Its a catch-all term to describe a form of cell mutation that is far greater in its diversity than even cancer researchers thought until a few years ago.
Until then, genetics and “personalised therapy” was the holy grail.
That is, until evolution stepped in.
When they began sequencing the genomes of tumors they found that not only are different tumors entirely different animals genetically, but the same genetic diversity exists within different parts of the same tumor due to the fact that cancer evolves rapidly (makes sense when you consider the basic error is in speeded up DNA replication) as it grows.. even with the same tumor.
Thus, a needle biopsy of a tumor of clinically significant size is going to yield a genetic profile that is inconsistent with other parts of the tumor.
Once you add distant metastasis to the problem, the complexities multiply.
As for the foil hat nonsense.. there was tons of money in “managing” polio and TB too, yet I don’t recall hearing about sudden disappearances of vaccine researchers and people doing trials on antibiotic regimens.
Unfortunately its exactly because cancer is so difficult to treat that there is such a vast amount of misunderstanding, funding foolishness and blatant quackery in the field.
Thank God that I’m a 10 year cancer survivor, one day at a time. I have a wonderful Oncology doctor.
You cynics disgust me.
Okay, so now they have found a drug to kill cancer. It will probably be horribly expensive.
Google “ESSIAC”
Inexpensive, available without a prescription, and it kills cancer.
Neat! Thanks!
Yes. Fund research, get research. Reward cures, get cures.
All tax money dedicated to medical research should go into reward funds. Have a bunch of doctors define “cure,” and give out prizes for first, second and third place.
Google “ESSIAC”
Quack cancer cure. It has never been proven sucessful in any test.
essiac’s purported effect on cancer has been reviewed by several major medical and scientific bodies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,[3] the National Cancer Institute,[2] and the American Cancer Society.[4] All have found no evidence that essiac has any effect against cancer. The U.S. FDA described essiac as a “Fake Cancer ‘Cure’ Consumers Should Avoid”.[3] Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center wrote that essiac “has not been shown to treat or prevent cancer” and that its use should be avoided.[5]
^ Barrett, Stephen (July 27, 2010). “Questionable Cancer Therapies: Essiac”. Quackwatch. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
^ a b c d “Patient Information: Essiac/Flor Essence”. National Cancer Institute. July 21, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
^ a b “187 Fake Cancer “Cures” Consumers Should Avoid”. Guidance, Compliance & Regulatory Information. USFDA. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
^ “Essiac tea”. American Cancer Society - Complementary and Alternative Medicine. American Cancer Society. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
^ “Essiac”. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. March 10, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
the ‘one minute’ cure, i.e., hydrogen peroxide therapy has a decent record of fighting cancer, and can be done at home and is relatively inexpensive.....
No one is going to dispute that antioxidants like essiac, green/black/white tea are good for you and can have a cumulative positive effect on outcomes when combined with diet and lifestyle changes.
Quackery begins at the point people begin thinking this means the recommendations of oncologists and cancer surgeons should be discarded in favor of a jaunt down to the natural foods store.
It can be a fatal mistake.
Absolutely. WifeOfZeugma is 6 months free of a really nasty breast cancer. I am not sure that I'd submit to the treatment, having seen it up close. A hundred years from now, we'll look at today's chemo treatments, the same way we look at 18th century use of bloodletting and leeches.
P.S. The CD in CD47 stands for cluster of differentiation.
P.P.S. Just ignore the ignorant and cynical comments on the thread.
It should be promising!
The same methodology has been used in a clinic in Baja since the early ‘60s, although its probably not the same substance. The U.S. marshals burned their office down in San Francisco for doing it there.
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