"Ronald Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Seems to me the doctors on this list might have something to say. <Terry>
Terry: I am not too sure who that comment is aimed at, but I, speaking only
for myself, would not classify the "Cancer Cure du Jour" as a cruel hoax.
The problem is that there may well never be a single " Cure for cancer".
There are as many cancers as there are cell types and what might cure one
cancer is unlikely to work for all cancers. We seem to be doing quite well
with certain types of leukemia, and some leukemias are "curable" now. It
will be a long, tedious process, to "cure cancer", and in my opinion the
cause of cancer will first have to be discovered. Find out what causes
various cell lines to start dividing very rapidly, in an uncontrolled
process called cancer, and then devise a strategy to selectively shut off
that process in ONLY that cell line. There lies the problem. We can shut
down cell division very readily with many chemotherapeutic agents and
radiation, but how do you make these modalities attack only the cancerous
cells, and not destroy other actively dividing cell lines like the bone
marrow? The cures that we see touted daily are usually for a very limited,
specific tumor and not a universal cure for cancer. So...not a cruel hoax,
but maybe a miracle cure for a few individuals with say
rhabdo-lieomyosarcoma of the sternocleidomastoid. Ron
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
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