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I wasn't sure whether to place this here or in the area on family and health. I thought that that was more for the discussion of what to do when one's child had strep throat and this forum was more for discussion of non-personal, global issues, though. So unless Leonid moves it, it will be in "Around the World".
A few years ago I was very taken with a front page article in "The New York Times" about a researcher, Judah Folkman, who had stopped the formation of tumors in mice by cutting off the blood supply to them. Obviously this would be a great improvement over killing all cells, cancerous and healthy, with chemotherapies!
Two drugs about which I read (angiostatin and endostatin, I think) were in the earliest of trial stages. Dr. Folkman, modestly, said that all that could be said at that point was that if you were a *mouse* with cancer, they could take very good care of you.
I tried to follow the trials with the drugs, which had fits and starts. I am not a scientist, however, and my understanding of the research is modest at best. I *do* know that reseach into treatments for cancer is progressing. I have seen evidence of it as friends of mine are treated for the disease. It appears there is still a very long way to go, however.
This article in today's "The New York Times" was something of an update.
article
Deborah
A few years ago I was very taken with a front page article in "The New York Times" about a researcher, Judah Folkman, who had stopped the formation of tumors in mice by cutting off the blood supply to them. Obviously this would be a great improvement over killing all cells, cancerous and healthy, with chemotherapies!
Two drugs about which I read (angiostatin and endostatin, I think) were in the earliest of trial stages. Dr. Folkman, modestly, said that all that could be said at that point was that if you were a *mouse* with cancer, they could take very good care of you.
I tried to follow the trials with the drugs, which had fits and starts. I am not a scientist, however, and my understanding of the research is modest at best. I *do* know that reseach into treatments for cancer is progressing. I have seen evidence of it as friends of mine are treated for the disease. It appears there is still a very long way to go, however.
This article in today's "The New York Times" was something of an update.
article
Deborah
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