Posted on 04/11/2015 11:09:28 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Nearly everyone is thinking about cancer these days thanks to the Ken Burns film on PBS, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.” All of us, including Mr. Burns himself, who as a child lost his mother to cancer, know a family member or a close friend who has died of the Killer C.
The film tells us the magnitude of the murderous disease we are up against: “Cancer is a worldwide scourge. The fastest-growing disease on earth. By 2030, there will be as many as 22 million cases worldwide. Cancer afflicts 1.7 million Americans each year and kills 600,000 of them. More will die from cancer over the next two years than died in combat in all the wars the United States has ever fought combined.”
That’s terribly true, but it hides the good news, which doesn’t get enough play in this film. That is the astonishing progress that has been made in diagnosing and treating cancer. No, there isn’t a cure. But we are getting there, and the treatments since Brian Piccolo’s famous bout with cancer nearly a half-century ago are nearly miraculous. In 20 years, 1.5 million lives have been saved because of medical know-how and highly effective new treatments.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And yet instead of having this as our number one priority, we would rather spend trillions to lower carbon dioxide levels, even though no one has died of climate change.
Sadly, I couldn’t past the popups to read the rest of the article...and would have liked to.
But from the excerpt I will have to agree that the advances in cancer treatment and the survival rate have been nothing short of miraculous.
There is no single cure and never will be just one cure. Not all cancers develop from the same causes, and they all do not respond to the same treatments.
What will be developed is an understanding of what therapies are most effective against each type of cancer, both in general, and per individual.
There are things that work against a lot of cancers and there are things that work against very specific cancers only.
Universal things all patients will need to do is eat a diet right for their genetics. Further all will need to eliminate refined sugar and refined carbs from their diets in order to wipe cancer out.
Last year, they completed some study and said except for around four cancers....the rest are a fifty-fifty shot with your DNA and just plain luck. You could live any lifestyle you want....and your cancer odds are the same. Oddly, lung cancer was one of the four that you could live differently and avoid.
Bingo!!!!!!! The most coveted seven exclamation mark award is yours today.
What are these new miraculous treatments that are working for patients with cancer? The article keeps referring to them but doesn’t mention even one of them. I think the article is pure bs. Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are still the cancer treatments being used for virtually all cancers and these treatments are not new, chemo has been used for over 70 years and radiation and surgery for much longer.
There are alternate treatments being used successfully for some types of cancer but they are being used by few cancer patients compared to the chemo, radiation and surgery. So that is not turning the tide on this deadly disease.
Maybe more people are praying for healing.
A cure is just around the corner.
Damn, that’s one big corner.
What would be great is to bring it down to a manageable “disease”. Might not be able to get rid of it...but to live a full life with minimal discomfort with medication...
Obamacare will ensure cancer remains a death sentence. Only greedy medical companies would dare profit on cancer cures. They must be punished.
“Only greedy medical companies would dare profit on cancer cures.”
There is the possibility that “big pharma” would be willing to “buy off” promising alternative treatments if doing so would ensure their profitability on less effective protocols. Sadly, that is the mindset of today’s “corporate leaders.” They are often private sector analogs of the senior managers at the VA who were willing to see vets die so they could profit by having undeserved bonuses.
“What would be great is to bring it down to a manageable “disease”.”
That’s what my oncologist at City of Hope said he believes is the future for cancer treatment.
>> And yet instead of having this as our number one priority, we would rather spend trillions to lower carbon dioxide levels, even though no one has died of climate change.
Damn good point. Cuts right to the heart of the silliness and exposes GW for what it is — a power grab that benefits the elite left.
From personal experience I can tell you that Proton Radiation therapy for prostate cancer is a new, miraculous treatment.
Treatment of brain tumors (and possibly other cancers) with a modified polio virus is one such new treatment. The fact that two people’s gliobastoma has completely disappeared with this treatment is previously unheard of. Miraculous nearly! My wife has brain cancer and we are following this development closely- see the 60 min segment from two weeks ago...still in phase 1 trial but extremely promising development.
In addition, really promising cancer treatment studies have shown potential in using simple antibiotics: amoxicillin, etc. they’ve found it seems to disrupt the cancer’s mitochondria cell division process for multiple types. We pray each and every day for a cure, and I do believe one will be found someday in the near future.
The key part of these therapies is that they are created from the patient’s own cells. A cell population is isolated, then modified and expanded so that when reinfused back to the patient, the modified cells attack the cancerous cells. As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, various viruses are used as part of the cell modification process.
“Doctor, no one in our family smokes. So, how does a twenty year old kid get lung cancer?”
“I don’t know.”
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/why-lung-cancer-strikes-nonsmokers
I watched that move recently, hubby watched most of it. The best part IMO is the last section on immunotherapy. Other research I have done since hubby’s diagnosis has been on the immune system. Eliminating sugar, alcohol and tobacco are key - they all suppress the immune system. Also there have been good results in a Mayo clinic study on EGCG, the green tea extract. They had a 31% success rate on CLL getting the lymphocyte counts to decrease. Anything that can be done before the chemo process has to help.
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