This is more extraordinary news
on the cancer front. We have already
seen two other protocols that worked well enough to see off cancer and this
gives us a third. It is plausibly the
best of all.
I say that because it becomes plausible
to inject a working virus that does its duty and then goes dormant until
another threat emerges. Such a system
could provide a lasting defense against a long series of cancers while stopping
metastasis in its tracks.
I suspect that the traditional
medical paradigm is due to be totally overturned. It has been hugely gamed to prevent anything except
a long slow and expensive treatment protocol.
There is now too many successful alternatives emerging to stop the
revolution.
The new medicine will be about
health restoration and actual cures will simply become another minor specialty.
Right now we can reasonably
inject a suspension of nanogold to set up all tumors for a radio induced heat
death and then follow that up with a virus vector that cleanses the whole body
of any remnant cells. It will all take a
minimum time and effort and the patient walks out fully cured.
The present difficulty appears to
be that no one knows how to make money at it.
'Anti-cancer virus' shows promise
By James GallagherHealth reporter, BBC News
1 August 2011
Modified vaccinia virus can target cancer
An engineered virus, injected into the blood, can selectively target
cancer cells throughout the body in what researchers have labelled a medical
first.
The virus attacked only tumours, leaving the healthy tissue alone, in a
small trial on 23 patients, according
to the journal Nature.
Researchers said the findings could one day "truly transform"
therapies.
Cancer specialists said using viruses showed "real promise".
Using viruses to attack cancers is not a new concept, but they have
needed to be injected directly into tumours in order to evade the immune
system.
Smallpox to cancer
Scientists modified the vaccinia virus, which is more famous for being
used to develop a smallpox vaccine.
The virus, named JX-594, is dependent upon a chemical pathway, common
in some cancers, in order to replicate.
It was injected at different doses into the blood of 23 patients with
cancers which had spread to multiple organs in the body.
Prof John Bell University of Ottawa
In the eight patients receiving the highest dose, seven had the virus
replicating in their tumours, but not in healthy tissue.
Prof John Bell, lead researcher and from the University of Ottawa,
said: "We are very excited because this is the first time in medical
history that a viral therapy has been shown to consistently and selectively
replicate in cancer tissue after intravenous infusion in humans.
"Intravenous delivery is crucial for cancer treatment because it
allows us to target tumours throughout the body as opposed to just those that
we can directly inject."
Infection prevented further tumour growth in six patients for a time.
However, the virus did not cure cancer. Patients were given only one dose of
the virus as the trial was designed to test the safety of the virus.
It is thought that the virus could be used to deliver treatments
directly to cancerous cells in high concentrations.
Prof Bell acknowledges that the research is still in the very early
stages, but he said: "I believe that some day, viruses and other
biological therapies could truly transform our approach for treating
cancer."
Cancer Research UK's Prof Nick Lemoine, also director of Barts Cancer
Institute, said: "Viruses that multiply in just tumour cells - avoiding
healthy cells - are showing real promise as a new biological approach to target
hard-to-treat cancers.
"This new study is important because it shows that a virus
previously used safely to vaccinate against smallpox in millions of people can
now be modified to reach cancers through the bloodstream - even after cancer
has spread widely through the patient's body.
"It is particularly encouraging that responses were seen even in
tumours like mesothelioma, a cancer which can be particularly hard to
treat."
1 comment:
Anything that Cures, the FDA (Federal DEATH Administration) consideres a DRUG, therefore it will NOT be allowed..Big Pharma makes a ton of money on cancer drugs...No cures allowed..Like the stem cell diabetes cure in Denver, FDA killed it!! The stem cell cure in NJ...the FDA killed it...they do not want cures, only money for big pharma!!!!
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