[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-28 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
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Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer/response to Cornel

2006-10-25 Thread cornel
time ago, that he knew that his facts were right and that his logic was above board! Cornel - Original Message - From: "Sunith Velho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:35 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer/response to Co

[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-25 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
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Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer/response to Cornel

2006-10-25 Thread cornel
the journal where the mouse experiment (carried out a few years ago) that Gilbert was referring to, got published? Surely, this is ever so simple to answer in plain English! Cornel - Original Message - From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere ma

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer/response to Cornel

2006-10-24 Thread Mario Goveia
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[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-23 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
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Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer/response to Cornel

2006-10-20 Thread Sunith Velho
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Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-18 Thread cornel
air" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer > Sunith, beware! Mario is beginning to lose his temper. He'll start > foul-mouthing you soon. ___ Goa

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer (2)

2006-10-18 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunith, beware! Mario is beginning to lose his > temper. He'll start foul-mouthing you soon. > Mario observes: > RKN, Thanks for providing more proof that the left-wing that you belong to has reached a point of intellectual exhaustion if not tot

[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-18 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Mario Goveia wrote: > > The last people you want to waste your precious time > on are academics and researchers IN UNRELATED > MEDICAL FIELDS, especially ones who did not have > the wisdom to realize what a practising oncologist > had said IN SIMPLE ENGLISH, that medical > correlations coul

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-17 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
Sunith, beware! Mario is beginning to lose his temper. He'll start foul-mouthing you soon. -- RKN >>Mario responds: > Sunith, Since when did you join the fraternity of medical scientists? Besides, what gives you any more standing in a cancer debate than a cancer survivor? > As a developing schol

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-17 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 16/10/06, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Sunith Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario responds: > > > Sunith, .. > As a developing scholar who fancies himself to have a > half-way decent command of English but still hasn't > grasped the difference betwe

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-16 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Sunith Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In PLAIN English let me once again ask. > > Can you or Gilbert please provide for the benefit of > the scientists on this forum the name and date of > the journal where the mouse experiment (carried > out a few years ago) that Gilbert was referrin

[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-16 Thread Edward Verdes
While we are on this topic just read this in todays timesCheers Edward Verdes NRI scientists find colon cancer weapon http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2074544.cms BANGALORE: A five-member team of India-born medical researchers in the United States has discovered what may become a

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-15 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, my advice as a cancer survivor who faced a > significant probability of not surviving a rare form > of cancer for more than 5 years is that if you > develop > symptoms of ANY cancer, please consult a practicing > oncologist WITH EXPERIENCE IN YOUR FO

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-15 Thread Sunith Velho
Hi Mario, Can you please follow your own advice and stop boring us with repeated mails on this topic(especially since there is no trash section on Goanet to divert boring mails to!). By your logic you are even less qualified to comment on this topic than Santosh. You are neither a medic and nor

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-15 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jayant Vaidya is a practising professional and > academic Goan cancer surgeon, as well as a basic > cancer biology researcher. The post appended below > uses a hypothetical conditional scenario to > misrepresent his views and credentials. > Mario

[Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-14 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Gabe, Your question below is an honest question that many cancer patients grapple with. I often start my consultation with my patients, "Even with all our knowledge and advances in medicine, there are basically only three approaches to get rid of cancer - surgery, radiation therapy and syst

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-13 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 12/10/06, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario observes: > > > Cutting through all the mumbo jumbo about hapless mice > that may or may have not been used in some arcane > medical research, if the comments above are suggesting > that major surgery does not depress the immune system,

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-13 Thread Santosh Helekar
Jayant Vaidya is a practising professional and academic Goan cancer surgeon, as well as a basic cancer biology researcher. The post appended below uses a hypothetical conditional scenario to misrepresent his views and credentials. Cheers, Santosh --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-12 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And as Jayant pointed out, the mouse experiments > (described differently) that have been done, have > looked at what are termed as anti-angiogenic > effects that have nothing to do with depressing the > immune system. > Mario observes: > Cutt

Re: [Goanet] Misinformation regarding cancer

2006-10-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
Those who have read the surgical oncologist Jayant Vaidya's post that I had posted, and those who have tried hard to look for the description of the so-called mouse experiment in the medical scientific literature would realize why the following quote is a gross misrepresentation of fact regarding c