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Sound Waves Kill Skin and Prostate Cancer Cells
Anonymous Coward writes "A recent Study
in the
British Journal of Cancer shows that the use of
Quercitin
and 20KHz ultrasound for 60 seconds killed skin and prostate cancer cells. 90% of the
abnormal cells were dead within 48hrs.
Since low frequency ultrasound was previously shown to enhance the skin penetration of
topical substances up to 1000 times, it would seem that a topical Quercetin cream with a low
frequency ultrasound wand might be just the ticket for those annoying little skin cancers that
tend to occur in older geeks who have spent a bit of time in the sun."
Sounds great!
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They exist?
"might be just the ticket for those annoying little skin cancers that tend to occur in older geeks who have spent a bit of time in the sun."
Interesting. Is this some kind of career benefit one accrues with experience or time spent at the company?
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Induction of cancer-specific cytotoxicity towards human prostate and skin cells using quercetin and ultrasound (god that's a mouthful)
Serious dude... paragraphs, are awesome.
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Too bad the 20 Kelvin*Hertz waves kill skin.
Sun? Only serious geeks program those... This is one of the few times I'm glad I program a Windows box.
Now I have to choose between keeping my skin or avoiding prostate cancer....
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I didn't fart, that was my prostate cancer prophylaxis!
I didn't even RTFA, but it seems from the summary that the sound itself doesn't kill the cancer cells -- it helps the drug penetrate into the tissue.
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I haven't read TFA, but if this process only kills 90% of the cancer cells, won't the regrowth eventually become resistant?
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I love how slashdot goes from Bill Gates' taxes, to Chuck Norris, to cures for cancer.
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Hard choice there. The title actually talks about killing skin cancer cells as well as prostrate cancer cells...
You can have only two of the following three qualities when developing a product: cheap, fast or good.
What is that fiery orb in the sky? I'm pretty sure the incidence of skin cancer in geeks is way way below that of the rest of the population. Now if we're talking carpel tunnel syndrome then we're into geek territory. But the sun? Geeks live indoors.
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Pretreatment of cells with ultrasound (20 kHz, 2 W cm(-2), 60 s) selectively induced cytotoxicity in skin and prostate cancer cells, while having minimal effect on corresponding normal cell lines.
Selective toxicity is what cancer treatment is all about, so while the sound man not "kill" cancer, it's a promising treatment.
It would be nice to see the actual studies. I'd like to see the statistics, and see if any other methods were tried and the researcher's reasoning. It may be that dysplastic cells are susceptible to sonic damage and this might work with other therapy methods, such as xray or heat. I'd also like to know how they treated prostate cancer, which is the number two cancer killer of men in the US.
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1. Make CD full of songs with proper frequencies
2. Kill cancer
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!!!
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just the ticket for those annoying little skin cancers that tend to occur in older geeks who have spent a bit of time in the sun.
:)
Oh yeah, and we all know that's a billion-dollar market just waiting be tapped!
Hey guys, not all geeks adhere to the strict cathode ray glow suntan. I for one sport a genuine tan, although it's not hard to get in an Australian summer. This is sometimes the thing that irritates me about the nerd cliche. Although many people live the cliche, there are probably many more "nerds" out there that are playing sport and out in the sun all the time. my 2c
But you have to put the special cream on, too, eh?
In Soviet Britain, you kill cancer!
...Prostate kills YOU!
...Prostate kills YOUR Sound waves!
...Sound Waves kill YOUR Prostate!
...Sound Waves kill YOUR Prostate CANCER!
No, hang on...
Nope, that's not it either...
Wait wait, that sounds nasty....
Yeah, that's it.
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You must not be too handy at Googling.
kelvin-hertz relationship (physics.nist.gov)
Maybe you'd prefer a Pittsburgh (PA)-based acid jazz DJ Kelvin Hertz
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Sun??? Sun???
Nah, they just mis-spelled "CRT Monitor"
I for one... am not entirely sure I welcome our new sound/vibration emitting anal probe developing overlords. :-/
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There's lots of scientist geeks out there who interact with the sun. (and by 'interact with', I mean, sit in basements and look at pictures of it)
But I've actually seen some of them go into the big blue room while the glowy thing is still out.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
In other news, 90 seconds of Britney Spears has been shown to kill brain cells.
And Bose will be adapting their acoustic waveguide technology to produce a suppository-based speaker that gives you booty-shaking bass while killing colon cancer.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Well his story is a facisnating read anyways.
http://www.rife.org/
I think the conspiracy theories surrounding Rife are as numerous as those on the Kennedy assassination and engines that run on water.
Rife's basic theory was everything had a frequency - including diseases. If you could find the frequency of the specific disease the person had and then bombard them with high energy RF you could disrupt the disease enough to wipe it out.
The implementations today range from quack devices to actual medical testing (outside of the U.S.) Lots to be learned still. Great to see people still talking about it and working on it.
Use a multi-beam or acoustic holography technique to deliver destructive ultrasound to specific tissues. That may provide sufficiently selective toxicity. Surgery causes its own tissue damage, and I've even heard the needle biopsy described as creating a stream of metastases along the path the needle is withdrawn.
This is why I was initially apprehensive about diagnostic ultrasound with my kids, but the diagnostic ultrasound process delivers orders of magnitude less energy.
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geeks...sun...geeks...sun
it does not compute
So is proper puncutation. You should try it sometime.
You complain about my punctuation, because it does not comply with your educated standards.
My choice of punctuation was chosen specifically to indicate the pauses in speech that I wanted expressed, and which would have been expressed had I been speaking the words myself.
Namely, I *wanted* a pause in speech after paragraphs. To break it appart and indicate the use of topicative speech in English, as best as it exists. This would be similar to the usage: "Beans, I like them."
Just because my puncuation use varies from your strict and narrow confines of perceived authority, does not make it wrong.
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Depending on the source you refer to, the human audible range is quoted as being as large as 16-22,000 Hz, meaning this falls short of ultrasonic.
What the article ultimately seems to say, is that listening to Mariah Carey can improve the effectiveness of topical cancer treatments. I say it's not worth it.
Why do people say 'sound waves' in contexts such as these? "Sound waves" and "sound" are interchangeable. If sound waves kill cancer cell, sound kills cancer cells. In ordinary conversation we say "sound". We don't say "the sound waves from my stereo are great". So why do we say "sound waves" in this context?
"The White House is not an intelligence-gathering agency," -- Scott McClellan, Whitehouse spokesman.
Now google "quercetin" and you'll find the sort of market this substance has.
Sound waves have long been used by quacks to swindle cancer patients out of their money when they're vulnerable.
The experiment is done in vitro. It involves growing a thin layer of cells in a petri dish (well test tubes in this case). It's not too surprising that sound waves can affect such a small layer of cells. In real life, we are exposed to 20kHz sound all the time! It can destroy the cells in your ears, that's called industrial deafness, but is otherwise harmless.
The reason they're using skin cells, is that it's easy to grow in culture. It forms a nice thin layer, and will keep growing.
Cancerous cells also keep growing, so they are often easier to culture than normal cells.
The treatment apparently harms malignant cells more than normal ones. But due to the nature of the research, I really cannot trust their findings just yet. It's semi-interesting, but really pretty meaningless.
In terms of harming skin.. it would probably harm other cells too. If it only harmed skin, it wouldn't matter, we'd need a probe to get the soundwaves close to the prostate, sound wouldn't transmit far through a beer gut.
I don't find perscriptivism funny.
Asking for paragraphs so that it doesn't look like a big steaming pile is quit a bit different than nitpicking over a fucking comma.
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1) Then why the apparent joke? (You were modded funny, which I am sure you didn't mind.)
Because I don't see paragraphation as the same as perscriptivism.
2) I do.
I can respect that, and I get the joke... NOW. Of course, intonation and body language would have made your joke easier to grasp at the time.
3) Had to resort to a thesaurus, huh?
WTF? I've not opened a thesaurus in a long time.
Sadly, you are mistaken misplaced commas!! (And other incorrect) Punctuation, make things more difficult? To read than one, long paragraph.
Actually, I had no difficulty reading your sentence, despite the unusual punctuation. True, you through me off with the "!!", but the rest of it? I didn't even notice. I'm sorry if my ability to deal with variations of punctuation is different from yours; doubly so if that offends you.
On the other hand-- for me-- improper punctuation with paragraphation still leads to legible text, that is interpretable. Interestingly, to me, punctuation is one of those nitpicky items, that I just skip or read over. But when presented with a nasty huge glob of text that is entirely impossible for my eyes to visually break apart, my mind says, "fuck this."
I would be nitpicking if I made fun of your spelling of "quite".
1.) Typo
2.) Mentioning that you would mention it, is still mentioning it.
You sure can dole out the jokes, but you don't seem to take them too well. You remind me of Fred (Eric) Norris.
Oh, I can take jokes, and I really do try to take them as well as one can... when they're funny. I didn't find your joke particularly funny. (Please don't get mad at me because my sense of humor doesn't align with yours.)
In my opinion, perhaps you should work on your delivery. Something to make it obvious that you're being a jokester. Like: "Hey, also good, is proper, use, of punctuation!!"
Hell, if you'd started off with that, I'd have gotten your joke right at the start, and we'd have avoided this long stupid argument over stupid typos, and comma usage, and crappy delivery of stupid jokes.
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