We Fought Cancer…And Cancer Won.

Another dimension of the war on cancer that we all just sort of side step is the cost associated with scientific advances and age-cohort driven cancer care. How are we to pay for all this great care. Payors (Medicare and commercial health plans) are working feverishly to reduce their cancer "medical cost" inflation by moving to more restrictive pharmacy benefit management and pre-treatment medical management approval processes. So, on the one hand, we are excited about funding breakthrough research, yet we appear disinterested/distracted when it comes to the question of who is going to pay for it all.

We're losing the war on cancer because the focus is on early detection and treatment, when it should be PREVENTION. However, most people don't want to hear that they're current lifestyle/diet will more than likely lead to cancer and most doctors are educated enough to know better about nutrition and long term affects of certain foods on the human body.

Wonderfully refreshing piece of journalism! Facts, context, and food for thought! I really thought that good journalism had died. You've restored my faith!

I guess my point is with respect to the failure to investigate Prevention more profoundly. Regardless of the Cancer Industry's money motive, other research and even moreso, just commonsense tells us that negative stress dillutes, if not disables, our immune systems. Norman Cousins proved that for himself with Laughter (is the best medicine). Meanwhile we merrily go along with the fears and concerns seeded by the media, poitical campaigns, wars on whatever, food infestations and reports of disasters, high crime rates, etc., taking them all in, and no mechanism to expell them, like food waste, or pimples.

A good friend once told me that Cancer is "the will to die". We just accept that we're born and will eventually die. For now, that's probably the fact. But what if that was not the plan? How would we live differently? How would we build our towns and cities drifferently, school our children, pass on our knowledge, keep our eyes on the the next 100 years, and avoid fuel price stresses, food depletion... in other words, eliminate the larger, doom attitude stresses, and enjoy our potentials, far more?

No money in that, because its something within each individual's grasp, But far better that, than wasting our short time on this 3rd rock from the Sun, in cancer therapy. IMHO.

Wonderfully refreshing piece of journalism! Facts, context, and food for thought! I really thought that good journalism had died. You've restored my faith!

I guess my point is with respect to the failure to investigate Prevention more profoundly. Regardless of the Cancer Industry's money motive, other research and even moreso, just commonsense tells us that negative stress dillutes, if not disables, our immune systems. Norman Cousins proved that for himself with Laughter (is the best medicine). Meanwhile we merrily go along with the fears and concerns seeded by the media, poitical campaigns, wars on whatever, food infestations and reports of disasters, high crime rates, etc., taking them all in, and no mechanism to expell them, like food waste, or pimples.

A good friend once told me that Cancer is "the will to die". We just accept that we're born and will eventually die. For now, that's probably the fact. But what if that was not the plan? How would we live differently? How would we build our towns and cities drifferently, school our children, pass on our knowledge, keep our eyes on the the next 100 years, and avoid fuel price stresses, food depletion... in other words, eliminate the larger, doom attitude stresses, and enjoy our potentials, far more?

No money in that, because its something within each individual's grasp, But far better that, than wasting our short time on this 3rd rock from the Sun, in cancer therapy. IMHO.

they don't want to cure cancer. it provides too many jobs.

The key to these incurable diseases like cancer, diabetes and the like is to revive, rejuvenate, and recondition the mitochondria of the cells. When the mitochondria are energized they will restart the ATP pump which runs the Kreb cycle. Once these are up and about the cells will respond to "inputs" given them - medications, nutrients, etc. This is the reason why a treatment will work for one person but not on the next. The treatment did not fail. It was the other patient's body cells that failed.

We have developed a supplement which energizes mitochondria through nanotechnology.

Bong Yambao

Greed is the primary cause of cancers. The day we started to invent new and interesting chemical compounds to do new and interesting things is the day cancers started to explode in the general population. Look at all of these 3rd world countries all over the world who have high death rates because of exposure to toxic compounds which inhibit or excite growths of all kinds in the human populations of those areas. If we start using caution before we throw things away and figure out ways of safe disposal then some of these cancers might be prevented.

Greed is the primary cause of cancers. The day we started to invent new and interesting chemical compounds to do new and interesting things is the day cancers started to explode in the general population. Look at all of these 3rd world countries all over the world who have high death rates because of exposure to toxic compounds which inhibit or excite growths of all kinds in the human populations of those areas.

I believe that there is a definite link to cancer and longevity. The longer one lives the more chance that that person will get some form of cancer.

I am just a regular grandma, but a healthy one. It seems obvious to me that modern lifestyles are to blame for those outbursts of genetic and/or unknown illnesses.
Permissive education and psychiatric drugs are undermining and weakening us. Ready made food and chemical components as well as industrial diets leave our bodies vulnerable and unprepared to fight the attacks of other living cells that share our world with us. We need to turn back to the natural lifestyles and diets that were born out the primal needs of the human nature.

My brother and father both died within two years of each other. Both lung and brain cancer. It was quick for both of them. Not so much for me. As it turned out, they both hated me and cut me at every turn. God bless Cancer. Thin the heard.

To beat down cancer mortality, oncologists need to target all the many cancers that make up a cancer - the dozens of different pathways that cells use to proliferate and spread. That is the leading edge of research today, determining how this patient's tumor cells work and hitting those pathways with multiple drugs, simultaneously or sequentially, each chosen because it targets one of those growth, replication and angiogenesis pathways. The hope is to match tumor type to drug. We need to make the next leap, getting the right drug to the right patient. I agree!

Cancer cells often have many mutations in many different pathways, so even if one route is shut down by a targeted treatment, the cancer cell may be able to use other routes. In other words, cancer cells have "backup systems" that allow them to survive. The result is that the drug does not shrink the tumor as expected. One approach to this problem is to target multiple pathways in a cancer cell.

The key to understanding the genome is understanding how cells work. The "cell" is a system, an integrated, interacting network of genes, proteins and other cellular constituents that produce functions. You need to analyze the systems' response to drug treatments, not just one target or pathway. Another challenge is to identify for which patients the targeted treatment will be effective. Screening compounds for efficacy and biosafety.

Tumors can become resistant to a targeted treatment, or the drug no longer works, even if it has previously been effective in shrinking a tumor. Drugs are combined with existing ones to target the tumor more effectively. Most cancers cannot be effectively treated with targeted drugs alone. You need to measure the net effect of all processes within the cancer, acting with and against each other in real time, and test living cells actually exposed to drugs and drug combinations of interest.

Multi-targeted drugs can be well-predicted by measuring the effect of the drugs on the function (is the cell being killed regardless of the mechansim) of live cells, as opposed to a target (does the cell express a particular target the the drug is supposed to be attacking). While targeted screening tells you whether or not to give one drug, functional screening can find other compounds and combinations and can recommend them from the one analysis.

One thing that is important to remember is that we all die and this is, strangely, a good thing. As my 9 year old grandson noted the other day, "If people didn't die there would be no room for people to be born". This is not to say that we should welcome cancer, but it should remind us to keep the whole thing in perspective. If I am not to die of cancer, is Alzheimer's better? Let us try to make the most of the time we are given.

One thing that is important to remember is that we all die and this is, strangely, a good thing. As my 9 year old grandson noted the other day, "If people didn't die there would be no room for people to be born". This is not to say that we should welcome cancer, but it should remind us to keep the whole thing in perspective. If I am not to die of cancer, is Alzheimer's better? Let us try to make the most of the time we are given.

"In His masterpiece God installed the natural resistance to cancer, we must maintain it."
Today the treatment is more deadly than the disease. Chemo is deadly poison and depleats our entire system. The answer is to revive our resistance, only the body can do any healing. Please visit www.curetocancer.com or www.the-medicine-man.org