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Hi Ron,
My point is the press releases I see tout this as a cure today, now. Not
one human being has taken the drug. That will not happen for some time. If
it works as well in humans as is claimed in mice - a huge leap - it will
still take a considerable period of time for just finding the proper dosage.
Phase I trials which are mainly interested in the safety of the drug and not
its efficacy have not even begun. Just the paperwork for this phase will
take many months normally followed by the Phase II and Phase III trials.
Fast-track testing could cut down on the length and division between these
trials but it has not been a safe bet in the past. Fast track is drug
parlance is not a train one would likely want to ride on.
But in the meantime there are many people dying of cancer who read of a
miracle cure. The qualifications are buried at the end some place.
>"Ronald Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Seems to me the doctors on this list might have something to say. <Terry>
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>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
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> 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
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Best, Terry
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