http://www.standup2cancer.org/ "Stand up" is different and unique. Doctors are working together instead of competing against each other. They have done some pretty fantastic things in just 2 years. I was very impressed with them.
Radical cancer treatment saves woman's life... Womans Body Cut in Half to Treat Aggressive Cancer September 21, 2010 | A Canadian woman is the first patient to undergo an operation in which doctors cut her body in half to remove a tumorand survive.
Using healthy cells to boost immunity... Cell find may aid cancer vaccines 4 November 2010 - Recruiting healthy cells could aid immunotherapy See also: Study: CT scans modestly cut lung cancer deaths Thu Nov 4,`10 WASHINGTON A major study shows giving heavy smokers special CT scans can detect lung cancer early enough to modestly lower their risk of death the first clear evidence that a screening test may help fight the nation's top cancer killer.
In 1905 cancer was first coined as a modern medical term in the USA. In 1905 in the USA the first cancer hospital was established. It does no good to give a child a tail if no donkey is available to pin it on. Cancer is not treatable the way we treat it. The body easily and simply heals its self if you eat good food, breathe clean air, get lots of sleep, walk 10,000 steps a day and shun stress. Some countries have a zero cancer rate. Want cancer? Eat a big mac with fries and a pop 6 times a week, smoke, get 4 hours of sleep, get lots of stress, fight with your family, never drink lots of water. Cancer does not run in families, bad habits run in families.
Just because they didn't have a name for it or were far from understanding the disease doesn't mean that it didn't exist back then. Usually, tuberculosis and cancer were both called comsumption due to their slightly similar symptoms. Sometimes people just died and no one could say why. I'm all for a healthy lifestyle and prevention. You're right that our body continually heals itself and is able to dispose of cells with genetic defects. Nevertheless, cancer remains by its very nature a statistical phenomenon. Even if you avoid all known risk factors, you might get cancer. By the way, one of the most significant risk factors is getting older. As long as you stay alive, that's pretty unavoidable. To me, your post sounds like: "Got cancer, blame yourself." Maybe I'm exaggerating, but this would be a bad attitude. While it's fair to tell a smoker with lung cancer that smoking probably caused it, we should still try to treat it. Besides that, there are many who suffer from cancer whose tumor can't be traced back to certain risk factors. Bad luck happens, but cancer treatments fortunately keep improving due to intense research.
Guess short people do got a reason to live... Ecuadorean villagers lend clues on cancer, diabetes Fri, Feb 18, 2011 - A small group of Ecuadoreans with a genetic mutation that causes dwarfism may hold clues to preventing cancer and diabetes two of the biggest killers in the Western world, researchers said on Wednesday.
Predicting cancer growth with new biomarker... Newly Discovered Biomarker Predicts Cancer Growth February 22, 2011 - One of the most common questions cancer patients ask their doctors is: has the disease been contained or will it spread. A recent study by U.S. and Chinese researchers may help provide clues. The scientists examined genetic material from certain cancerous tumors and found that when high levels of a particular protein were present, there was a strong likelihood that these cancers would spread within two years.
New leukemia treatment... 'Amazing' therapy wipes out leukemia in study Aug 10,`11 - Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia - turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.
Another breakthrough in cancer research... Scientists have breakthrough on cancer cells Tue, Dec 20, 2011 - Washington : US researchers said yesterday they have discovered how to keep tumor cells alive in a lab, generating buzz in the scientific community about a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.
I heard today on the news that they have isolated a protein necessary for cancer cells to divide and multiply. It sounds promising.
