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Cancer break-thru?
alledan
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THURSDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered a key mechanism by which cancer cells evade detection and destruction by the immune system.
The finding could lead to drugs that effectively rob tumors of the protected environment they need to survive and thrive.
A molecule called interleukin-23 (IL-23) "creates an environment that's just not acceptable to normal immune surveillance. Healthy immune cells that could kill the tumor can't get in there because of this -- it's almost a shield around the tumor," explained study co-author Robert Kastelein, a distinguished research fellow at the Schering-Plough Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., part of the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company.
FrankWalker6
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The finding could lead to drugs that effectively rob tumors of the protected environment they need to survive and thrive.
A molecule called interleukin-23 (IL-23) "creates an environment that's just not acceptable to normal immune surveillance. Healthy immune cells that could kill the tumor can't get in there because of this -- it's almost a shield around the tumor," explained study co-author Robert Kastelein, a distinguished research fellow at the Schering-Plough Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., part of the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company.
FrankWalker6
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Few years too late for my Mom though.....[V]
And today I'll be attending my fil's funeral, whom died of cancer. I've did a bit of medical research on my own through the years, and can't help but feel that there are cures for many disease but it's just not as lucrative to let them be known. They put stuff like this out just enough to keep hope alive, and keep one going back to the doctor.
I think that you are absolutely correct. Sadly, as long as they can make billions off of pills, nothing will ever be cured. You can only sell a cure one time, but you can sell pills to the same person for 50 years.
If by chance it comes from the US, it will have to be "fast tracked" or go the old route of 10 years research and about 200 miilion dollars.
If the drug companies get hold of it, then it no doubt will be shelved.
AWWWWWW, you guys really don't think the goverment would trear us that way do you?[:D][:D]
During some of my research (15 years ago) I read of an American doctor that said he knows a cure for cancer, and it indeed was a drug that came out of Europe. He said he had been bringing it in (illegaly) and there was no doubt in his mind it CURED cancer. He also said we'll never see it in the U.S., because it was a definate cure.
I would believe most anything about the drug companies, but I would not believe most doctors are in colusion.
This kid has never complained once. The thing that seems to bother him most is not getting his driver's license. If there was a cure for cancer this kid is one that sure needs it. he is going to St. Judes next week and probably will not leave the hospital alive.
One of the things that I found most facinating was essentially the subject of the original post, that there was a body of study that was indicating that successful treatments consists of 'starving' the tumor of what it needs to grow, whether it be, in my case, estrogen, herpecin, or some other hormone, as opposed to the traditional, "slash, poison, and burn" approach.
My own treatment consisted of minimally invasive surgury, hormone therapy and radiation, rather than chemo, and I'm a six year survivor this March.
Most recently, it was published that there has been a vaccine approved to prevent cervical cancer!