Cancer Cures

[Michaelangelica]

A cancer resistant mouse is a great start.
So does the "tumor-suppressor gene called "Par-4" in the prostate" kill all cancers?

It it only in men? I note it is in other cells too. Is it mainly in the prostate? How come so many men get prostrate cancer?

Can it be encourages or "turned on" in any way, either by herbs, drugs or anything else? Does it decrease activity with age?

Gene therapy here we come. A very exciting breakthrough.

'Phyto' read "herbs"

By Debasis Bagchi, Harry G. Preuss
This book focuses on the role of natural supplements in cancer prevention and therapy. The first section covers cancer epidemiology, cancer statistics and current therapies and potential toxicities involved with existing...
Published by CRC Press

Phytopharmaceuticals in Cancer ... - Google Book Search

Choice of Therapy

[Michaelangelica]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just three servings a month of raw broccoli or cabbage can reduce the risk of bladder cancer by as much as 40 percent, researchers reported this week.
. . .
These foods are rich in compounds called isothiocyanates, which are known to lower cancer risk.
. . .
"Cooking can reduce 60 to 90 percent of ITCs, (isothiocyanates)," Dr. Li Tang, who led the study, said in a statement.

Studies show how fruits and veggies reduce cancer | Health | Reuters
Unfortunately a lot of bugs like brassica family vegetables too so I think, they are often sprayed quite a bit.

[Michaelangelica]

Researchers present new data that demonstrate how diets full of raw vegetables --particularly broccoli sprouts -- and black raspberries could prevent or slow the growth of some common forms of cancer.

Black raspberries modulate markers of oxidative stress in patients with Barrett's esophagus

Black raspberries may protect against esophageal cancer by reducing oxidative stress in patients with Barrett's esophagus (BE), a pre-cancerous condition that usually arises due to gastroesophageal reflux disease, report researchers at The Ohio State University.

According to the researchers, BE patients have a 30- to 40-fold increased risk of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), the fastest growing cancer in terms of incidence in the United States. EAC is a deadly cancer with a 15 percent five-year survival rate; an estimated 14,000 people will die from esophageal cancer in the U.S. in 2007. Moreover, a number of treatment options are available to BE patients for symptom relief, researchers say, but none has proven curative or eliminated the risk of cancer progression.

Diet And Cancer Prevention: New Evidence For The Protective Effects Of Fruits And Veggies
PS
What are Black Raspberries?
I have never seen them

[Michaelangelica]

Your Immune System Can Keep Cancer Dormant

New research has shown for the first time that the human immune system can stop the growth of a cancerous tumor without actually killing it. These results help explain why some tumors suddenly stop growing and go into a long period of dormancy.

The study's authors call this cancer-suppressing state “equilibrium.” During equilibrium, the immune system decreases the cancer's ability to grow, and kills some cancerous cells, although not enough to eliminate or shrink the tumor.

Researchers injected mice with small doses of a chemical carcinogen and observed those who developed small, stable masses at the site of the injections. When certain components of the animals' immune systems were disabled, the growths became full-blown cancers. This suggests that the immune system had been holding the tumors in check.

Your Immune System Can Keep Cancer Dormant - Articles
Sources:

* DailyIndia.com November 19, 2007

* Nature November 18, 2007 [Epub ahead of print]

Also a link to another Hypography thread
http://hypography.com/forums/news-br...ls-cancer.html

The golden bullet that kills cancer!
Quote:
American scientists have developed a ‘golden bullet’ treatment for cancer that tracks down tumours before wiping them out with a blast of heat, and are planning tests on patients within weeks, it has emerged.

[omedetou_dana]

Speaking about cancer is like we talk about “who was first the egg or the chicken “ is the same long and interminable discussion.
There are cancers like breast or colon cancers, one of the hematological proliferations with a higher survival.( we can’t say the same thing about brain or pancreatic cancers).
What determinate cancer?
1.hereditary ( colon cancer)
2.genes (proto-oncogenes and many others )
3. viruses as human papillomavirus responsible for the cervical cancer (there is a vaccine for it)
Treatment is specific for each kind of cancer .

[Michaelangelica]

Holy Grail' of treatments expected within two years

Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld
Daryl Passmore
December 16, 2007 12:00am

QUEENSLAND scientists expect to start clinical trials within two years on what has been described as the "Holy Grail" of cancer treatments.
Dr Ming Wei from the University of Queensland Department of Medicine says he is "very confident" of success in developing the treatment, which uses bacteria from kangaroos to attack tumours.

The world-first therapy could save millions of lives each year.

Professor Ian Frazer, who developed a cervical cancer vaccine, has hailed the work of his Queensland colleagues.

"The Holy Grail of cancer treatments is to come up with treatments which can deal with the tumours without harming the patient," he said.

Starting next month, Dr Wei will lead a team of 10 scientists genetically modifying a common bacterium from kangaroos to develop a product that is expected to be effective in combating up to 90 per cent of cancers.

'Holy Grail' of treatments expected within two years | The Courier-Mail

[Jet2]

You may find the below link useful...
Why We’re Losing The War on Cancer [and How to Win It]

Though I do not have proof myself, I believe mind power is an good alternative cure!

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Jet2

You may find the below link useful...
Why We’re Losing The War on Cancer [and How to Win It]

Thanks, Jet

I found Clifton Leaf’s 2004 article impressive, as a well-written summary of the known science of oncology (the study of cancer), and summary of the history and economics of cancer research, and a pointed criticism at the inefficiencies and bad ideas of its institutions and traditions. It doesn’t promote any unconventional thinking or fringe science, but rather focuses on problems for which substantial mainstream criticism exists, yet progress is slow or non-existent.

I recommend it highly. Though, at over 10,000 words, it’s a lengthy read, it covers and connects a lot of information, while being neither overly technical nor “dumbed down”.

It’s odd that an alternative treatment website like healingcancernaturally.com promotes Leaf’s article with the following prefacing comment:

the man who wrote this article is unbiased against or for any particular cancer treatment. He conclusively proves in this article that the cancer establishment [conventional cancer treatment] has made virtually NO significant strides toward curing cancer since the 1950s! Getting someone newly diagnosed with cancer to read this is a first step toward opening up their eyes ...

While I agree with the recommendation of Leaf’s article to cancer patients, it neither state nor imply anything like “conventional cancer treatment has made virtually NO significant strides toward curing cancer since the 1950s!” Rather, it emphasizes the disparity in progress in various areas of treatment, in particularly areas where mortality has decreased little since the 1950s.

Originally Posted by Jet2

Though I do not have proof myself, I believe mind power is an good alternative cure!

You’ll find no support whatever for this belief in the linked article – nor, IMHO, in any credible source.

Though patient morale can for many reasons be critical in the treatment of many diseases, the idea that “mind power” should be used as an alternative to conventional treatment, rather than to complement it, is, in my emphatic opinion, a dangerous one.

There is also almost no possibility of scientific proof of such a claim. Such testing would require a sizable patient population to be denied conventional treatment in favor of an alternative. For a life-threatening disease for which a conventional treatment with a high probability of success exists, this is ethically unconscionable.

[Michaelangelica]

Last Updated: Friday, 28 December 2007, 00:02 GMT
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Drug target to stop cancer spread
breast cancer cell
Cancer cells can spread through the body
UK scientists have uncovered a vital clue to stopping cancers spreading around the body.

A protein called Tes is able to block a second protein, Mena, from helping cancer cells "crawl" away from the initial tumour.

The London Research Institute team says this knowledge should help in the design of new drug treatments to anchor a tumour in one site.

The work is published in the latest edition of the journal Molecular Cell.


Cancer cells use many complex processes when they break away from their tumour and spread to other areas of the body
Dr Lesley Walker of Cancer Research UK

The Mena protein is found in excessive amounts in tumours and was already known to help cancer cells move away from a tumour and spread around the body to form secondary cancers - one of the main obstacles in treating cancer.

Study leader Dr Michael Way said Tes was not as well studied but in many tumours it is absent.

Using a range of techniques, including X-ray crystallography, which can be used to determine the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule, Dr Way and his colleagues found that Tes attached itself to Mena in such a way it could no longer bind with other proteins.

Without being able to interact with its normal binding partners, Mena was no longer able to help the cancer cells migrate from the tumour.

Greater understanding

Figures show about 20,000 people have died from cancer every day across the world in 2007.

BBC NEWS | Health | Drug target to stop cancer spread

[Michaelangelica]

Thanks Jet. I haven't studied the article yet but intend to.

It appears that a Gin and Tonic may stop you getting some forms of cancer (!)
Tonic is made from the herb quinine- where chloroquine comes from.

the antimalarial drug chloroquine effectively prevents cancer in mouse models of two distinct human cancer syndromes, Burkitt lymphoma and ataxia telangiectasia.

Anti-malarial Drug Prevents Cancer In Mice, Study Shows