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Common virus kills cancer, study finds
Reuters ^
| 6/21/05
Posted on 06/21/2005 3:53:57 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: KoRn
I hope you are correct and I am totally wrong. Perhaps I'm just a bit cynical.
To: Cincinatus' Wife; Berosus; blam; dervish; Do not dub me shapka broham; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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06/22/2005 10:38:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
To: MHGinTN
If upwards of 80% of the population has this virus, why is cancer found in such a high percentage of the population (higher than 20%)?
Not sure. But a key to that question, assuming that this AAV-2 does kill cancer cells, may be in the quote from the article below:
AAV-2 is a small virus that cannot replicate itself without the help of another virus. But with the help of a second virus it kills cells.
They don't mention the other viruses. Trade secret? Anyway, maybe most people lack one of the crucial partner viruses.
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posted on
06/22/2005 10:59:21 PM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: Brad's Gramma
To: MHGinTN; fr_freak
If upwards of 80% of the population has this virus, why is cancer found in such a high percentage of the population (higher than 20%)?Actually, only about 20 to 25% of people (in the USA) will ever get cancer of any kind in their lifetimes. Also, the article stated that the virus kills cancers of the epithilial cells, which covers many, but not all, types of cancers.
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posted on
06/22/2005 11:18:15 PM PDT
by
rmh47
(Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
To: SunkenCiv
I saw this yesterday.
Is it too good to be true!?
Good to get good news.
To: fr_freak
"Although the reason why remains unclear, population-based studies have shown that people who carry AAV2 tend not to develop human papillomavirus- (HPV-) associated cervical cancer. In general, AAV2 requires association with a helper virus in order to replicate. When it finds a helper virus, such as HPV, AAV2 disrupts the life cycle of the host and induces apoptosis, a type of cell death.
"one of the ways AAV2 suppresses cancer is by inhibiting the normal process of DNA duplication of human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is known to lead to cervical cancer. A second way AAV2 suppresses cancer is linked to its ability to slow cell-cycle progression by decreasing cancer cell proliferation rates and causing growth arrest."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ps-shv062105.php
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posted on
06/23/2005 1:06:24 AM PDT
by
endthematrix
(Thank you US armed forces, for everything you give and have given!)
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