Jimmy Carter's in bad shape

[Blake]

Listening to him, he sure sounds lucid and articulate for being 90, let alone having brain cancer.

[ChumpDumper]

Back to teaching Sunday school already.

[pgardn]

immunological approaches are promising but it's still very early, and of insanely expensive.

marijuana is here now and worth a try for any short timer like Carter.

I think targeted chemo delivered by nanoparticles will be more immediate, or targeted nanoparticles locking in to cancer cells and then heated by magnetic or other wave energy. Cancer is very sensitive to heat, as in killed at lukewarm 110F.

This is a big ask. It's still incredibly difficult to target ONLY cancer cells. And even bigger is We know we miss some of the cancer cells because they are displaying normal antigens during certain phases. Killing identified cancer cells is not a problem.

[boutons_deux]

This is a big ask. It's still incredibly difficult to target ONLY cancer cells. And even bigger is We know we miss some of the cancer cells because they are displaying normal antigens during certain phases. Killing identified cancer cells is not a problem.

If you can kill most cancer cells, "debulking", then cancer can be treated, and re-treated, as a "chronic" disease rather than as a fatal disease needing immediate treatment. This a recent approach to cancer by some docs.

Molecular medicine, nano-medicine, immunological medicine are still new, developing.

Doctors are wildly guessing most of the time, they don't really know , ignorance is rampant.

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/24...ance.html?_r=0

and so many docs gave up on independent practices are now nothing but revenue centers for large clinics, hospitals. America is ed and un able by its for-profit medical system.

[pgardn]

If you can kill most cancer cells, "debulking", then cancer can be treated, and re-treated, as a "chronic" disease rather than as a fatal disease needing immediate treatment. This a recent approach to cancer by some docs.

Molecular medicine, nano-medicine, immunological medicine are still new, developing.

Doctors are wildly guessing most of the time, they don't really know , ignorance is rampant.

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/24...ance.html?_r=0

and so many docs gave up on independent practices are now nothing but revenue centers for large clinics, hospitals. America is ed and un able by its for-profit medical system.

In some cases you are going to die from the big void left by "debulking".

But it in some types this seems reasonable. And I would agree that some docs are being led around by pharmaceutical companies in an absolutely disgusting manner.

[ChumpDumper]

Man, this thread got boutonized hard.

[pgardn]

Man, this thread got boutonized hard.

I bit.

No doubt.

[TeyshaBlue]

Shocking.



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