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Since
our last update of 2005 we have been observing the
field of cancer research and development closely.
However, our keen and close observation has not
revealed any significant development worth
mentioning. Our understanding in this regard is also
confirmed by a report on Human Genome Project published
in the 20th March 2007 issue of "Newsweek". The
report termed the project as a resource sucker in
the days of budget carnage. For the benefit of the
viewers, the crux of the report titled "This is
no way to cure cancer", is reproduced verbatim
in the succeeding paragraph:
"From a clinical and drug
perspective, the cancer-genome project is so
shallow it's worthless," says George Gabor Miklos,
who has served as a consultant on genome projects,
the holy grails of biology for a decade. NIH, he
says, has "made an enormous mistake that will cost
the taxpayer billions." Scientists from top
institutions including the Mayo Clinic, the
University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School
are weighing in to denounce the project as
"high-cost, low-efficiency," "not informative" and
"naive."
Meanwhile
our experts have taken stock of the happenings in
the new millennium and have come out with two
excellent pieces of work viz.
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Cancer and Environment
which not only disproves the role of
Environment on process of canceration but also
depicts the hollowness of "Gene Theory" . This
article by Dr. Sthabir Dasgupta will
indeed provide an insight to our viewers on the
subject in depth. Click here to
download the full article.
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An Update on the Cancer for
the New Millennium by Dr Lopa Mehta and
Dr. Manu Kothari in addition to being an
update of cancer in the new millennium,
brilliantly suggests the common man how to deal
with the cancer simply and gracefully in the
gizmos of cancer treatment in the new decade. Click
here to download the full article.
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Update 2012: "The
Harrison's Principle of Internal Medicine",
the tome for medical students world over
has the following lessons:
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On Early
Detection: "Tumors follow
Gompertzian growth curve; the growth
fraction of a neoplasm starts at 100%
with the first transformed cell and
declines exponentially over time until
at the time of diagnosis , with a tumor
burden of 1-5 x 109 tumor
cells, the growth fraction is usually 1
- 4%. Thus peak growth rate
occurs before tumor is detectable."
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Cause and risk:
"The most significant
risk factor for cancer overall is age;
two thirds of all cases were in those
older than age 65 years"
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On
treatment and consequences: "Every cancer treatment
has the potential to cause harm,
treatment may be given that produces
toxicity with no benefit." "Over 10
million Americans are cancer survivors.
The vast majority of these people will
bear some mark of their cancer
treatment, and a large population will
experience long-term consequences that
include medical problems, psychosocial
dysfunction, economic hardship, sexual
dysfunction and discrimination in
employment and insurance.
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Update February 2014: We need to go back 200 years and
once again refer to the memorandum of 1802 by
Scottish physicians which has in explicit terms
stated about the physicians' inability to detect
cancer early and if not bothered the host remains at
ease for a long period. We have thoroughly reviewed
the cancer scene of the past five years and have
summarized the same.
Please
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After this update on the new
millennium we think we have nothing more to
say on cancer. We would suggest our viewers
to go through the above mentioned articles
after they have completed reading all the
pages of this website.
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