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    Default Cancer...now this is cool......

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...ienceandHealth

    A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manu1959 View Post
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...ienceandHealth

    A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.
    Is it proven? What about the people who don't have this Gene?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nevadamedic View Post
    Is it proven? What about the people who don't have this Gene?
    They're screwed. Survival of the fittest!

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    http://tinyurl.com/287gon


    Try this on for size and realise that the system we have doesnt do these kinds of studies because they cant make money off it.

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    Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers
    20 January 2007
    NewScientist.com news service
    Andy Coghlan


    IT SOUNDS almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their "immortality". The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

    Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

    DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact that they make their energy throughout the main body of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar. Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis's experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).


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    Quote Originally Posted by truthmatters View Post
    http://tinyurl.com/287gon


    Try this on for size and realise that the system we have doesnt do these kinds of studies because they cant make money off it.
    Dear God in Heaven!!! Dont tell me your one of those people that still believe the Canadian Helath Care System is better than the one in the US.

    I would like to say I am glad the Canadian health system has time to do these types of studies while their "PATIENTS" (CITIZENS) wait an extremely long time for routine test.

    The average wait time for diagnostic testing
    In 2005, the median waiting time was about 4 weeks for specialist visits, 4 weeks for non-emergency surgery, and 3 weeks for diagnostic tests
    You realize that the average wait time in the US for diagnostic testing is usually measure in hours not weeks.

    edit: You should realize that after waiting 3 weeks to have diagnostic testing than 4 weeks for non-emergent surgery that totals 7 weeks that is if you dont take into consideration the amount of time it takes to get in to see the specialist. These are not cummulative times they are times for each stage... thats 11 weeks from start to finish...
    Heres another tid bit for you

    10 % of all Candians do not have access to a family doctor. They have no way of getting in to see a General Practice physician due to the fact of not enough pysicians to see the population. That totals 3.3 million people that have insurance but are unable to utilize it due to their inability to access the healthcare system.
    Access to healthcare does not mean access to long lines and delays..
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    Quote Originally Posted by truthmatters View Post
    Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers
    20 January 2007
    NewScientist.com news service
    Andy Coghlan


    IT SOUNDS almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their "immortality". The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

    Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

    DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact that they make their energy throughout the main body of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar. Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis's experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).


    http://tinyurl.com/287gon
    I have just one word for you on the ease with which the Canadians utilize new drugs..

    thalidomide

    They dont do as extensive research as the FDA does in the US....
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    It had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis.

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    cancer is uncontrolled growth of cells.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nukeman View Post
    Dear God in Heaven!!! Dont tell me your one of those people that still believe the Canadian Helath Care System is better than the one in the US.
    To me, almost any health care system is preferable to having to pay ever-higher insurance premiums every year, just to pay the salaries of a bunch of divorced, middle-aged bitches who do nothing but figure out new ways to deny people's claims.
    If you're worth less than $5 million and you vote for McCain, you're a loser.

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