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The big C - time to stop worrying ?
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| posted by HKBloke 1129 days ago |
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Over the past few months there have been a number of 'ground-breaking' announcements regarding the treatment of cancer. Back in May the NHS in the UK announced they were approving a 'smart' cancer pill for patients with advanced breast and bowel cancer and today scientists at MIT gave details of a nanocell that can burrow into a tumour, cut off its blood supply and detonate a lethal dose of anti-cancer toxins - which in tests have proved safe and effective against lung cancer in mice.
Do all these announcements make people complacent about the risk of developing cancer because that imply that we are getting very close to a cure?
If you smoke and were thinking about giving up do you now think 'sod-it, if I get lung cancer in 20 years the chances are they will be able to cure me'?
I think it's a fact that people are less worried about it than they were say 10 years ago - but is there a danger that we are now starting to take away the incentive of following a healthy life-style.
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| posted by God de Vader 1129 days ago |
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chances of recovering and staying alive are clearly better but they are far from perfect.
these new announced "wonder" drugs.....sound great and i welcome them but i dont see legislation be passed for robotics being sent inside the body to happen in the next 20 years yet.......so no i still see myself at high risk
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by God de Vader 1129 days ago |
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hmm, very interesting indeed!
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by HK Expert 1129 days ago |
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It's all still very much in it's infancy like many drugs that are developed to treat cancer.
The thing is, and what many lay people do no seem to understand is that there are many different types of cancers and a treatment for one form of cancer, is not a treatment for all other forms of cancer.
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| posted by God de Vader 1129 days ago |
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whats cancer being caused by actually.....wasnt this really coming up since Tsernobyl? or am i wrong?
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by HKBloke 1129 days ago |
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HKExpert - of course you are right but until recently the challenge has not been identifying the mixture of drugs that are effective more how you get them concentrated on the cells in the tumour (and not the healthy cells elsewhere in the body). They are limited by the stength of the drugs they can use by the damage they do to normal healthy cells.
A lot of the recent announcements have been about more effective ways of getting the drugs where they need to be.
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| posted by jaykay 1128 days ago (edited 1128 days ago) |
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I am somewhat sceptical about the announcements made by companies in regard to the latest cancer drug treatment. Over the past few years I have seen on the news wonderful new drugs that are claimed to hit the cancer directly, and then you hear nothing more about them. The conspiracy theorists claim that the reason truly efffective drugs haven't been relased is because they make so much money out of research and announcements like this give them a financial boost.
I would so much like to see cancer eradicated completely, one of the sad things about getting older is that you see and know more people affected by this illness. The saddest thing is seeing young kids with this disease. I really hope that this announcement is the real thing and millions of people will benefit as a result
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing!
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