http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/powerful-anticancer-compound-uncovered-20090814-ekcv.html
Could it be true? Let's hope so...
Could it be true? Let's hope so...
A cure for Cancer?
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It could potentially be very interesting as part of a multimodal "attack" on cancer.
Research in the 80s and 90s was convinced that all you needed to kill cancer was the right dose of the right chemotherapy (either single-agent). However, it is now realised that a "gold bullet" doesn't work, you need to use several approaches at once - debulking with surgery, zapping with radiotherapy and clean-up afterwards with chemotherapy, immunotherapy or other molecular targeted agents, preferably individually tailored to the genetic make-up of the tumor.
So even if salinomycin isn't thé big break (and it almost certainly isn't), it could lead to a new vulnerability to exploit, and that is very good news indeed!
Research in the 80s and 90s was convinced that all you needed to kill cancer was the right dose of the right chemotherapy (either single-agent). However, it is now realised that a "gold bullet" doesn't work, you need to use several approaches at once - debulking with surgery, zapping with radiotherapy and clean-up afterwards with chemotherapy, immunotherapy or other molecular targeted agents, preferably individually tailored to the genetic make-up of the tumor.
So even if salinomycin isn't thé big break (and it almost certainly isn't), it could lead to a new vulnerability to exploit, and that is very good news indeed!
New research:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/05/cancer-treatment-science-delivered-dragon-station/
TAE has a new tool to fight cancer
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/...better-cancer-radiation-treatment-device.html
Poor Alex Trebek says he was doubled over in his dressing room before takes.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia seems to have cured Nick Wilkins of his leukemia by transferring new genes into the patient's T-cells. Oncolytic viruses are of use-- the adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) killed breast cancer cells in seven days. An HIV virus is used to insert a new gene sequence into leukemia patients white blood cells.
The ImMucin vaccine seems to kill 90% of solid and non-solid tumors.
Misc
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-simple-paper-early-cancer-diagnosis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-medication-gel-brain-tumors-mice.html
Modified ecstacy can be of use.
Professor John Gordon, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC: "Against the cancers, particularly the leukaemia, the lymphoma and the myeloma, where we've tested these new compounds we can wipe out 100% of the cancer cells in some cases.
Ironically, a cancer-cure can be a cure for mental illness. Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, a psychiatrist at the Shimane University School of Medicine in Japan found that a bone marrow transplant cured the man’s schizophrenia.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/05/cancer-treatment-science-delivered-dragon-station/
TAE has a new tool to fight cancer
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/...better-cancer-radiation-treatment-device.html
Poor Alex Trebek says he was doubled over in his dressing room before takes.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia seems to have cured Nick Wilkins of his leukemia by transferring new genes into the patient's T-cells. Oncolytic viruses are of use-- the adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) killed breast cancer cells in seven days. An HIV virus is used to insert a new gene sequence into leukemia patients white blood cells.
The ImMucin vaccine seems to kill 90% of solid and non-solid tumors.
Misc
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-simple-paper-early-cancer-diagnosis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-medication-gel-brain-tumors-mice.html
Modified ecstacy can be of use.
Professor John Gordon, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC: "Against the cancers, particularly the leukaemia, the lymphoma and the myeloma, where we've tested these new compounds we can wipe out 100% of the cancer cells in some cases.
Ironically, a cancer-cure can be a cure for mental illness. Dr. Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, a psychiatrist at the Shimane University School of Medicine in Japan found that a bone marrow transplant cured the man’s schizophrenia.
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Thank you. Very interesting!
I will eagerly await the next cancer update for this thread in 2029.
I will eagerly await the next cancer update for this thread in 2029.
What abut using nanobots?
Well, when we develop nanobots, they'd certainly be useful for treating any disorder, not only cancer but also ageing, at the molecular level. However, like practical fusion power, they appear to be some way off. Until then, adapting existing biological nanomachinery, for example CRISPR-CAS9, retroviruses and bacteriophages, appears to be one way forward. We'll probably need to find a way to stop collateral editing of harmless DNA sequences that happen to match those being targetted. In other words, the editing mechanisms need to act only in the correct context.
Personally, I think a combination of microbeads for high-level localisation of treatment, delivering modified bacteriophages that can recognise anomalous cells and which inject editing nanomolecules to induce cell apoptosis might be a possibility.
Personally, I think a combination of microbeads for high-level localisation of treatment, delivering modified bacteriophages that can recognise anomalous cells and which inject editing nanomolecules to induce cell apoptosis might be a possibility.
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Or MEMS devices. What about those?
MEMS = micro electromechanical systems
Yes, MEMS are another plausible treatment method. They could probably be used for detecting cancer cells and delivering appropriate therapies on a localised basis without requiring major invasive surgery or subjecting a patient to unpleasant side effects.
Yes, MEMS are another plausible treatment method. They could probably be used for detecting cancer cells and delivering appropriate therapies on a localised basis without requiring major invasive surgery or subjecting a patient to unpleasant side effects.
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