Scientists Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads

* * Beatles-Beatles writes "Instead of a cell just breaking off from a tumor and traveling through the bloodstream to another organ where it forms a secondary tumour, or metastasis, researchers in the United States have shown that the cancer sends out envoys to prepare the new site."

Comments

You have got to be kidding me

[ndansmith]

Slashdot: Spam for Readers. Page Rank for * * Beatles-Beatles.

Re:You have got to be kidding me

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Can someone link to/explain the Beatles-Beatles ref. please?

Beatles-Beatles is the solid, undeniable, irrefutable proof that the Slashdot editor system is broken. While great submissions are tossed daily, Beatles-Beatles is allowed to continue to abuse his articles on Slashdot to increase his Google PageRank.

Essentially Slashdot is actively promoting a spammer, at the expense of better articles.

Several possibilities come to mind. One; the Slashdot Editors have been bribed by said spammer. Two; the Slashdot editors are not bothering to proof read any articles. Three; The slashdot editors have simply stopped reading the article comments, where Beatles-Beatles has been critisised on numerous occassions. Four; The Slashdot Random Story Submission Selection System is broken. The reader can decide which of these is more likely.

In the era of Digg.com, I think the Slashdot editors should be doing more to justify the editor system. As it happens, Slashdot is becoming the prime example of why the editor system is inferior. I would like this to change, but the Slashdot Eds really just don't seem to care about the site anymore.

Still the comments are good.

Re:You have got to be kidding me

[Breakfast Pants]

How about if the people who booked guests for the shows had a queue of possible guests sorted by ascii value so guests starting with "* *...." got picked the most often? I would blame the bookers for the show for a flawed system (*hint* *hint*).

Forget Mars... Target Cancer!

[chub_mackerel]

I've always thought the wiser thing would be for a President to proclaim that we shall cure cancer within the next decade. Rather than the tired old Moo... er, Mars thing.

Assuming validity to this story, it seems such a thing might be possible.

A nice side benefit is that the government money involved goes less into the military-industrial complex, and more into medical research. Yes, I know that there are still military applications to any such research... nevertheless it would be nice if the government's research money was targeted directly and explicitly at a benefit to humanity. A cure for cancer falls in that category.

Somebody think of the children!

[xtracto]

From the rip of a http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169603 &cid=14134565>rip:

I'm recycling a comment from another AC in another Scuttlemonkey/**Beatles-Beatles post. This guy's getting worse than Roland Picklepail:

Am I the only person who has noticed the numerous stories that get posted by *--Beatles-Beatles? Am I also the only person who has noticed that the link used in is name is a constantly changing URL (depending on the story) with pointers to various scammy sites? Is it not obvious what he's doing? He's using the awesome PageRank of slashdot do promote his sites based on searches that have the word Beatles in them.

It's a small price to pay for free advertising. Find a story, summarize it in 5 minutes, post to slashdot, and get a pagerank boost that advertisers would pay hundreds (or maybe thousands) for. (Text links on high-ranking sites is big business - just ask oreilly).

Slashdot should at least put a ref=nofollow in the links to submitters (or better yet, only link the submitter's name to his/her user page).

In closing, a quick bit of WHOIS shows that all the sites linked by **B-B are registered to Carl Fogle. Carl, cut this crap out.

Re:An even more interesting cancer finding.

[Stephen H-B]

What the fuck have you been smoking?

Cancer is a condition of abnormal cell division and growth, not some anaerobic chemical reaction. The cancerous cells have the same metabolic requirement for OXYGEN that normal cells do. OK, sure, they could rely on glycolysis and not use blood oxygen, but rapidly dividing cells use more energy than glycolysis can reasonably provide.

Take your "omg the evil drug companies invented disease so they could gouge us" conspiriacy theories and shove them where the sun don't shine.

I beg to differ

[xao gypsie]

I beg to differ you little shit. I have leukemia, and 20 years ago the doctor would have told me "make youself comfortable, you have X years/months to live". 10 years ago they would ahve hit me up with a powerful chemo and then done a bone marrow transplant, a risky procedure at best. My odd of surviving that would not have been optimal though it would be possible. Now, with the release of a drug called gleevec, my prognosis is good. Once I adapt to the side effect (which are tough, but not as bad as traditional chemo), this pill could actually put me into remission. So you are absolutely dead wrong. Money for cancer research it working, and it is saving my life (even though I am now only 22).