January 01, 2012
An ambitious plan for curing cancer in a businesslike way is in the works
From The Economist:
Dr DePinho is the new president of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas. (He took over in September, having previously headed the Belfer Institute, part of Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.) Mindful of his adopted city’s most famous scientific role, as home to Mission Control for the Apollo project, he says his own mission is akin to a moon shot. He aims to cure not one but five varieties of cancer. What he has not yet decided is: which five?
That it is possible to talk of curing even one sort of cancer is largely thanks to an outfit called the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Researchers belonging to this group, which involves 39 projects in four continents, are using high-throughput DNA-sequencing to examine 50 sorts of tumour. They are comparing the mutations in many examples of each type, to find which are common to a type (and thus, presumably, causative) and which are mere accidents. (The DNA-repair apparatus in malignant cells often goes wrong, so such accidents are common.)
The consortium’s work is progressing fast, and preliminary results for many tumours are already in. But such knowledge is useless unless it can be translated into treatment. That is where Dr DePinho comes in—for his career has taken him into the boardroom as well as the clinic.
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Posted by: John Ballard | Jan 1, 2012 8:29:10 PM
Thanks for that, John.
Posted by: Susan | Jan 2, 2012 2:20:11 AM
This is another worthless propaganda article promoting more failed cancer research. Why they have even duped Ross Perot into wasting more money down a rathole.
These incompetent non researchers have not read the literature in their own field.
It was demonstrated decades ago that all cancer cells have an impaired respiration and exist only in areas of the body where oxygen is low. These are experimental facts proved by Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D. and confirmed in many other laboratories around the world.
It is only when you understand and acknowledge these facts that leads to the conclusion that the adulterated food supply and the poisoned environment are the cause of the cancer epidemic, not mutated genes. The mutated genes are a result of the wrong energy, not the cause.
As Jessee Greenstein and Max Gerson, M.D. said decades ago, cancer is a "disease of civilization". One cures cancer by preventing it in the first place following the simple and relatively cheap recommendations of the genius in Germany Otto Warburg. You cannot cure a house once it has burned to the ground and you cannot cure cancer once it has grown out of control.
The best book which provides details of how to prevent this disease is "The Hidden Story of Cancer" by Brian Peskin, Pinnacle Press, Houston, 2006-2010. If the MD Anderson Hospital were serious about preventing cancer they would appoint Brian Peskin the new president and fire this new worthless clone of all the other previous failures. He wrote a whole chapter and an appendix proving that cancer is not genetically caused. His outstanding book is the only one on cancer that makes any scientific sense.
Posted by: WJAbbe | Jan 2, 2012 7:34:22 PM
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