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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."
Just what we need, tumors with puppet governments.
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It's not a tumor!
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sure is a slow news day today...
Slashdot: Spam for Readers. Page Rank for * * Beatles-Beatles.
...the spread of **Beatles articles.
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
<p> Just imagine a world without pagerank pirates like ** * Beatles Beatles *
it's a blue bright blue Saturday hey hey
"Fibronectin, which acts like a glue to attract and trap the bone marrow cells to create a landing pad or nest for the cancer cells."
Maybe they can sythesize something which is able to bond to Fibronectin? If they flooded the bloodstream with it, it could use up all the landing pads and effectively block the cancer from attaching anywhere.
Kinda like a Denial of Service on a molecular level...?
What, no comparisons to Microsoft yet?
Yes! One step closer to finding the cure for cancer. /me lights another Marlboro...
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"Stem cells from bone marrow can also, quite remarkably, give rise to non-marrow cells"
Do bone marrow cells exhibit pluripotent characteristics that lend them to the use metastasis puts them to?
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Here's the link to the original article for those who have access: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/fu ll/nature04186.html
There's also a commentary in the same issue:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7069/fu ll/438750b.html
Greetings,
Hrshgn
From the post:
"researchers in the United States have shown.."
From TFA:
"LONDON - Scientists have discovered.."
Is this just national pride gone mad, stealing other nations' work? Or is this just another case of there being 42 different "london"s or "oxford"s in the USA? Start inventing some names of your own!
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.
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.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Ignoring the **Beatles pagerank, understanding how cancer physically moves about in a host might just lead to novel medical techniques for anything ranging from delivering blocking drugs that occupy the targets to something like Halo's Flood that colonize the organism.
/flippant 8p
Shh.
An even more interesting finding about cancer was made by Otto Warburg in 1932. Cancer occurs in the abscense of oxygen. What nutrient is the most beneficial in retaining oxygen? Calcium. Is calcium used in any cancer treatment regimen in the US? No. Why? Because it doesn't make any money for the drug companies.
Just how is such a thing selected for? Seems too amazing to be a coincidence. Do the mechanism involved simply confer a greater advantage than disadvantage to such an extent that they've never been replaced? Is it possible there's a viral cause? Excuse my ignorance :)
Oh yeah! Well I've got an anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-missile!
linkage.
Shh.
Make sure you sort to the top of the submission queue, by using a name that start with a character with a low ASCII index. Submit lots of articles. Finished. Eivind.
Doubting the existence of evolution is like doubting the existence of China: It just shows that you're uninformed.
Have you ever hear of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Center? A ton of government money has been going into cancer research for decades. A problem is that cancer is not a single entity, it is hundreds of different diseases. Tremendous progress has been made, but it is unlikely we will ever make any single discovery that can be called "the cure for cancer".
Hey man, got a cigarette?
What is the reason for cancer to spread? What is the reason for tree to grow? They discovered a mechanism not a reason.
Lol what an excellent link!
:)
Really funny (and I bet he would laugh too) and at times eerily zen-like
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This was presaged by Yes Minister. Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Read. Laugh. Weep.
Mars is a single object, it's big, we know where it is, what rules it follows and how to hit it.
It makes a difference.
KFG
In fact, any advance in the fight against cancer is a big deal. I applaud the researchers who discovered this. I'm going to make a donation. Nothing prepares you enough for the first time you see the oncologist.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Please, please tell me the submission queue system isn't really based on sorting by username... then again, it might explain how this story made it (there's even a typo in the title!).
It's obvious that not one of the editors bothers to read this site, or they would notice the flood of complaints about this every time Beatles-Beatles posts a story. So we should use the one means at our disposal to get their attention - the story queue!
Let's all submit a story about google karma whoring via stupid and gullible Slashdot story editors. Then they might take notice.
Xenu loves you!
Google "Nixon war on cancer" and see what you come up with. Sadly, it's an example of governmental hubris.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Either "Scientists unlock" or "Scientist unlocks". Pick one.
lol no this is not a metastatis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4502716.stm
If you have issues with this submitter, maybe you can help give him the full slashdot experience.
As far as I know, bandwidth costs money.
If he posts a link, he wants us to click the link, so we should do it, as many times as we need in order to see what's in there, and see what happens in the next submissions.
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The problem with research funding is that throwing more money at a goal won't really make the goal be achieved any faster. Research takes time, and having an unlimited bank account doesn't make it go any faster or better. Similarly, having more people doing research also doesn't really speed things up. Just an empirical observation based on experience.
However, if this is actually a breakthrough, I am thrilled. It seems that after a couple more decades of research, we may understand this well enough to treat it pharmaceutically. It will also take a couple of decades for the billion patents that were likely filed yesterday to expire, allowing real solutions to be developed.
Similarly, having more people doing research also doesn't really speed things up. Just an empirical observation based on experience.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I posted that I rather expect the cure for cancer, assuming there actually is one, will come from some entirely unexpected corner disconected from the massive cancer research projects.
Science is not an assembly line.
KFG
I've always explained cancer as being an empire of the flesh. Its always interesting to find the parallels between macroscopic things like that kind of human political entity, and a small biological thing like this. If this article is true, then it just adds more complexity, and one more parallel to my analogy.
Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
With the interception of these cancer 'envoys', we finally can 'kill the messenger' and not feel so bad about it.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
... How is the location selected? The article said that marrow cells are sent to a location. By some chemicals generated by the tumor cells. How does a chemical select a precise location in the body? I am confused.
Could it be that a certain combination of chemicals sends the bone marrow cells into a specific location? The body must use the same technique to send them to places needed for new organs I guess. So the cancer cells just hijack that technique to use it themselves? If that is so, could they be manipulated to set the address to a non-existing place? Like a loopback address perhaps?
religon. Is cancer religion, or is religion cancer? Because both have representatives bugging me all the time.
FTA: "These nests provide attachment factors for the tumor cells to implant and nurture them. It causes them not only to bind but to proliferate. Once that all takes place we have a fully formed metastatic site or secondary tumor," said Lyden.
I think this is how Windows spreads also. Check out this mildly re-written version of the above:
"These proprietary APIs provide attachment factors for the 3rd party applications to implant and nurture them. It causes them not only to bind but to proliferate. Once that all takes place we have a fully formed legacy application or secondary reason not to get rid of Windows," said LaughingCoder.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
We are fighting a war: a war on cancer
And we are losing.
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I'm surprised that so many researchers still view cancer as a sentient malicious being living within a biological system.
Cells have a language that they use to communicate. They communicate with the cells in the other tissues around them. They communicate with the blood cells as they pass by. They communicate with the various cells of the immune system. This communication is constant. Every cell is constantly emitting and absorbing a matrix of cytokines, lymphokines, and other chemokines. It is from the interpretation of all of these different levels that a cell adapts and responds to its environment.
Cancerous cells are simply responding to their environment. In many ways a cancerous cell is malfunctioning. In many ways the set of chemokines which it emits acknowledges that it's malfunctioning. In a body with a healthy immune system the immune response is properly recruited and the cancerous cells are put out of their misery. This is why babies can grow so quickly with so little chance for deformity. The cells are communicating properly and the body ensures that any malfunctioning cells are removed.
In a cancer, when a cell begins malfunctioning, the immune system is not notified of the problem. The surrounding cells, when exposed to the proper levels of the signaling molecules, may be programmed to imitate the same behavior. I believe that this is part of a larger process that's supposed to work to increase the intensity of the signal and attract the immune system. If the immune system is not properly recruited, though, then the originating cells divide and become more and more degenerate and the increased level, intensity, and garbled nature of the signal aggravates even more cells in the area. When sufficiently aggravated without any response to attenuate the signals from the malfunctioning cells then more and more proper cells will begin to show signs of chemical stress and become cancerous, necrotic, or apoptotic.
In some cases the original cancerous cell may not be technically malfunctioning. That cell may be responding appropriately to surrounding tissue which has become numb and nonfunctional. This can be seen in bone cancers where the osteoblast count is at extreme low levels. The remaining osteoblasts are tired, overworked, stressed, and more than a little frightened by the absence of their comrades. Those cells begin exhibiting chemical signs of that stress meant to recruit the repropagation of other osteoblasts. If the situation isn't remedied, however, it's very easy to think that the osteoblast is evilly trying to metastasize. In tissues of high cell censity (kidney, pancreas, stomach, intestine, brain) it's most likely that the cancer is a result of a malfunctioning immune system. In a tissue of low cell density (bone) it's most likely that the cancer is a result of a deficiency in the tissue itself--maybe a logical sign of natural aging.
At any given point in time any one of us has a number of cancerous cells in our body. They're not sentiently floating around looking for tissue to victimize--they're doing what they've been programmed to do: survive.
The real question has always been: Why isn't the immune system responding appropriately? In most cancers the immune system is responding improperly or flat-out ignoring the problem. The studies of immunologists on the pathways of intercell signaling is very important research but sorely underfunded because research and study rarely leads to quick quarterly profit. There are easily hundreds of different intercell signaling molecules all tailored for their own specific message. The field is so complex that it's very difficult to quantify progress in the eyes of the business managers who have no conceptual understanding of the task or the technology.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
Envoy probes sent to Hoth, the ice planet.
There MUST be a relation....
Actually, they found out HOW cancer spreads, not WHY. I would suspect why it spreads is to reproduce.
Really, I just assumed they would use a FIFO queue to order submissions. Seems like the logical choice anyway.
There are almost 6 Billion people in the world, surely there're enough people to research both?
Scientist Unlock Reasons
/. posters were my english teachers at school, I wouldn't have scored as badly as I did.
If only the
for every time i read/heard about some 'new breakthrough' in medical science. bottom line is (as chris rock put very well) THEY CAN'T CURE SH$T!. got cancer? your options are: burning (raditation), cutting (surgery), or poison (chemo). gee thanks. what wonderfull progress you doctors have made. i'll eat these words when they finally CURE ANY disease (antibiotics don't count, we've had those for what 60 years?). for all the money we dump into medical science, i think its scandelous that we have such LITTLE return, apart from boner drugs and the like, yippie!
Darn it...Now that you mention it, it does sound like a clever poem.
Heh.
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The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
The above is actually an old chestnut of management wisdom that Rummy picked up from his days in private industry. Rumsfeld wasn't being stupid or crazy, he was just being unoriginal.
where there's fish, there's cats
My point exactly... I feel like many cures are found completely by accident.. someone whose wife or husband has cancer will be working on developing some new kind of paint thinner or something and discover that their spouse's cancer goes away... or something like that...
Of course, if we were to be truly objective, we have to face the possibility that there is NO CURE for certain cancers. We may find one way to block uncontrolled cell growth, only to find other mechanisms take over.
I'm not saying we should not do the research, but this may be a case where the journey is worth more than getting there.
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I had pretty much the same question as the GP. A two-phase attack -- envoy and then spread -- seems pretty complex to me. How would such complexity evolve since cancer is not contagious?
The domains in question are pretty clearly designed to spam Google by leveraging the enormous PageRank that Slashdot has.
Well, it's working. A search for George Harrison on Google yields his george-harrison.info site in the first page of search results.
Just further proof of Intelligent Design.
It's actually a very profound observation, something along the lines of:
So there's things you know (We wanna build an airplane, around $10 mil each).
Things you think you know (It's likely going to cost $13 million)
things you know you don't know ( costs above expected overruns)
and things you don't know you don't know ( unexpected events beyond the expected unexpected events)
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what about googlebombing him?
and link "Carl Fogle" with this page for example: http://www.hatchoo.com/spam/
Bad news for the Cancer Industry, so they'll just quietly make sure that any treatments that arise from this discovery, just like every other cancer treatment developed from every other discovery made in the last thirty years, never see the light of day. Nothing to see here, folks, just keep doing that incredibly expensive chemo, radiation, and surgery; the medical establishment's got yachts and mansions to buy.
</rant>
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
While it's easy to jump into the "What's the reason behind mosquitoes" sort of philosophical arguments, the reality is that cancer isn't a single nice, neat package. Even this article falls into the trap - the mechanism they describe is likely just one of many.
Think of cancer as a statistical event. Cellular mechanisms don't work 100% all the time. Most cancer cells are benign and never noticed. A few have very specific things go wrong with them that allow them to grow and spread and kill the host.
Think of it as evolution in miniature. The unsuccessful cancers are destroyed by the immune system, fail to grow, or fail to spread. If a particular cell begins replicating and stumbles upon the correct mutations to allow it to do all three, you have full blown cancer. This is also why chemotherapy stops working after awhile - the cancer cells that are resistant survive, allowing them to continue to grow and thrive.
It's a nasty business, but not a particularly mystical or mysterious one.
Am I the only one to notice the little mod war going on? Anyone criticizing the editors and/or the submitter get's modded down for Trolling and Off-topic posting. Anyone supporting the editors gets modded down for trolling. The best comments of both worlds still make through due to additional Insightful and Informative mods, but it really seems like the editors are trying to squash these threads of discussion and the commenters are fighting back.
Are you serious?
You modded down my comment about camel non-filters?
I'm guess I'm honored you spent a mod point on modding down something so trivial, but overrated? Why overrated? It was rated at 0 to start with, it would seem that there must be a reason for putting it at -1. Overrated is to get the +5 posts that are wrong back down to where they belong, not the 0 posts down to -1.
Anyway, I guess I'm glad you bother to read the post at all.
I apologize for my poor spelling in the parent post, often I don't spell check because I don't expect to be modded up or down.
"Why'd the cancer cross the road?"
A no-bid contract was awarded, surprisingly, to Enron. When asked what made a defunct Energy trading company with a history of defrauding the American public the proper choice for a cancer study, Bush responded "This is America. If you're not for us, you're against us." Asked what exactly that meant by that, he angrily retorted "I don't take questions from cancer lovers, muslims or liberals."
Bush also said "And we've got our eye on that BeatlesBeatles guy, too, you can be sure of that."
Scientist Unlock Reasons Cancer Spreads
...is our children learning?
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
Now, the parent was off topic. Nice mod.
The grandparent though needs to be corrected.
I figure one more will make three in a row and will get the whole Adelphia high-speed subnet which serves UVM (via contract), Champlain College, CCV, and a few others banned form anonymous posting.
I for one welcome our new cancer spreading special bone marrow cell overlords.
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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).
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...but very interesting, and the first thing I'd ask is, if metastatic cancers require this "system" to operate in order to be successful, then why are so many carcinomas malignant? Shouldn't we be seeing a lot more benign growths that require only a simple, surgical extraction? Perhaps this behavior serves a more mundane use and is often already active. Unfortunately that means drugs to inhibit it might produce some very unwelcome side effects.
Nothing prepares you enough for the first time you see the oncologist.
A pint of Jack Daniels goes a long way towards achieving a good level of preparedness.
I don't get the big deal here. The guy is submitting legitimate articles, and the /. editors obviously see enough value in them to put them on the front page.
So he's getting something out of it, and he's got an alterior motive. So what? Is it really hurting the way you browse the site? You have to admit that this is a newsworthy story. It's not like he's submitting nonsense and then reaping rewards for it.
If you have that big a problem, don't click on his stories, and don't follow his links. Otherwise, quit freaking out every time he submits a story, because it's getting old.
The article describes "envoys" that the primary site sends out to find/prepare new sites (metastasis), affirming that this preparation is necessary for secondary tumors to grow. The article also states that without the "landing pads" made possible by the "envoys", it is impossible for the secondary tumors to grow.
It seems logical to me that this kind of "prep work" is necessary for the initial tumor to grow, so if researchers can learn how to block envoys from "parent" tumors, then they might be able to develop a way to screen for "progenitor envoys".
Let's hope, anyway.
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Then please reread my earlier comment about this guy:
Ok, let's have a look at his george-harrison.info website. Aha, maybe the links at the bottom of the page? Yes, I see: http://george-harrison.info/reciprocal-links.html [george-harrison.info].
Sooo, what may be on that page? Quoting:
Looking at the link list (just a small excerpt):
HTH!
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
This really makes me think. I always thought cancer were just defects in cells that caused them to multiply like crazy. But now it turns out that cancer is something like a living being, a parasite invading a host.
So, perhaps cancer IS caused by a virus (like the Human Papiloma virus)? Perhaps this unknown virus managed to implant its genetic code in humans and this was passed to future generations? You know, I'd really like to have someone sequence the genome of cancerous cells. Who knows what other surprises we might find?
Everytime a new discovery like this is found, it gives us more questions than answers.
"lol no this is not a virus."
Surely it should be "the method"
The clue is in the headline of the article :
"Scientists discover how cancer spreads"
not why
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Hey Chubby, it's like this...
Cancer kills a lot of people every year. It's tragic.
A huge rock slamming into the Earth, kills EVERYONE.
This will happen one day.
No space exploration, no humans.
Dude, that is hilarious. One of the short, funny posts that actually gets me to read the comments in slashdot!
And what about mutations which are actually caused by the chemotherapy/radiation? I still find it suspicious that a melanoma can, supposedly, develop into e.g. leukemia via metastisis.
No account, so posting AC
There have been no reported cases of cancer on Mars in any reputable medical journal. We need to go there and find out why!
This is old news... Nova ran a special on this back in 2001! But that's what you get for paying attention to mainstream media (msnbc, in this case), instead of PBS, NPR, and scientific journals.
Oh the irony: speaking about the "offtopic" mod war got you modded as "offtopic".
It's like pointing out the truth and being modded a liar for doing so.
vb
embrace extend extinguish
As far as I can tell, the article and the Nova special are talking about different things. The former is about cell attractors, whereas the latter is about blood vessel growth. Important, but different, parts of the puzzle.
We have cured many types of cancer. When someone finds out that they have cancer, the first question is no longer "How long have I got?", it is now "Is it curable?".
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.
Been there. Done that. President Nixon launched a "War on Cancer" to find a cure within a decade.
Still no cure for cancer. But we're getting closer.
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Then there are the unknown knowns,
The things we don't know
We know,
But that direct and constrain our thinking anyway.
There are unknown known knowns,
The things we don't know
Even though we know
We know them.
These are things we think we know,
But we're way off base.
There are known known unknowns,
The things we know
We do not know,
Without realizing
We actually know them.
These are questions we keep asking
When the answers
Are staring us in the face.
There are also unknown unknown knowns,
The things we don't know
We know,
But that we don't actually know.
These are unconscious constraints
That need to be changed.
There are known unknown unknowns,
The things we don't know
We don't know,
When we actually know them.
These are the questions
We could answer
If only we thought to ask.
The unknown known unknowns,
The known unknown knowns,
The known known knowns,
And the unknown unknown unknowns
I will leave to another slashdotter.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
My gut tells me that messing with fibronectin is probably a very bad thing.
Storm
Ah, yes, but what of the unknown knowns? Are there things that we don't know we know?
From one of my poems: 'Sometimes there are somethings that somepeople shouldn't know.'
Perhaps this isn't so. Perhaps in these situations it would suffice that those in question should simply not be aware of what they really do know.
If you can't just be yourself, then be more like me, ok?
I think what you meant to say was "(My|Our) research money."
This subconcious, false belief that the government has some magic pool of money from which we all benefit is what is killing this world.
I will never live for sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
the cause of cancer was discovered about a decade ago.
Linkspammer aside, what seems interesting to me about this is the change it implies in how cancer should be viewed. Cancer cells aren't just bits of broken machinery going haywire, growing and breaking and growing somewhere else. They're parasitic colonial lifeforms actively seeking their own advancement, and treating the body as a host.
Less of a malfunction, more of an atavism?
But then you'd get a bunch of Americans, stating that since they invented it, they should control it, and nobody else should benefit from it without permission.
Hey moron mods. Click the "* * Beatles-Beatles" link at the top of the page and tell me you didn't have the same reaction.
Next time take a minute and look at context. If you don't think my joke is funny move on or mark as overrated but don't mark me as offtopic when I am talking about the same thing as the parent and sibling posts.
Institute of Food Research study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4502404.stm
http://george-harrison.info/
What does cancer have to do with pageranking? nothing? Maybe we shold give this story to someone else, even if it's not theirs.
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
"I guess I forgot if there are any unknown knowns" ;)
The sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
you crazy asshole.
I LOVE THAT POST. the ending stunk. but then your signature made up for it.
bravo goodshow attaboy
Alright, perhaps I was a bit hasty.
I wonder if the slashdot editors modded him down because they don't want their secret out in the public.
It doesn't need to be modded upto +5 but something like +3 would be reasonble.
Kind of further explains how proper oxygenation of the human body can hold a cancer from spreading, a discovery I made almost 2 years ago > http://www.newpath4.com/thecancercurefromnewpath4c urecancer.htm .
It doesn't stop the CANCER it stops the outsourcing. Hey, THE KEY TO STOPPING CANCER IS STOPPING THE OUTSOURCING. hahahaha Gee, I knew I'd finally find my way to total knowledge! You have to control the Weather > http://www.newpath4.com/WorldwideClimateEngineMsg. htm , including the little nasty storm fronts.
I had cancer a few months ago and am now effectively "cured" in that I no longer have a cancerous tumour inside me. I must have missed the major headlines saying that cancer had been cured!
In mine and most cases where the patient can be cured, the main factor is time; can we remove the original tumour before it starts to metastase? Failing that, can we disrupt the metastase process if we can't get at the tumour (it's somewhere tricky like a lung or a bowel).
This research seems to be one step closer to disrupting the metastase process. In my case that would mean that I wouldn't need to go through unpleasant radiotherapy treatments "just in case" there is some metastasis, even though they haven't found any. I could just take whatever drug comes out of this research to disrupt any remaining metastasis sites and that would be that.
The biggest problem with cancer, and this is where the time factor is most significant, is not so much curing the disease; it's reversing all the damage it has done in the body even if you manage to destroy/remove the tumour(s). That however takes us into an entirely different branch of medical research; stem cell research and organ regrowth, and look how much fuss is being made about that at the moment!
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