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Cells, Microbes & Viruses / Re: Can cancer stem cells be reverted or reprogrammed to become healthy stem cells?
« on: 01/02/2008 16:18:51 »
Thanks a lot Karen and MFF. Sorry to hear you lost your mom Karen.
For me since there is no cure for cancer in general and my mom wants to understand the illness more too I can at least do something useful and learn more about it and tell her. If I could take it away I would, as anyone would want to I am sure.
It seems like science is getting closer to understanding the mechanics of cancer much more than in the past. It almost seems like a cure could be close but its complexity is still intimidating.
I have found some useful animated medical videos on some of the video internet sites like youtube and such, which helps in the visualisation of how cancer works. If only there were a way to treat or slow down cancer without the damaging chemotherapy which causes so much damage to healthy cells. I have also just heard of a friend of my mother who is going in for some kind of nuclear therapy where people will have to stand away from him for a few days because he will be emitting radioactivity or something. He only has a 5% chance they say. Poor chap. I think it is thyroid or lung cancer. I know there are a lot of horrible ilnesses in the world but when the treatments are so horrible too it makes it all the worse. I hope scientists can come up with some better ideas on treatments because chemo and radioactivity are frighteningy extreme.
Al
For me since there is no cure for cancer in general and my mom wants to understand the illness more too I can at least do something useful and learn more about it and tell her. If I could take it away I would, as anyone would want to I am sure.
It seems like science is getting closer to understanding the mechanics of cancer much more than in the past. It almost seems like a cure could be close but its complexity is still intimidating.
I have found some useful animated medical videos on some of the video internet sites like youtube and such, which helps in the visualisation of how cancer works. If only there were a way to treat or slow down cancer without the damaging chemotherapy which causes so much damage to healthy cells. I have also just heard of a friend of my mother who is going in for some kind of nuclear therapy where people will have to stand away from him for a few days because he will be emitting radioactivity or something. He only has a 5% chance they say. Poor chap. I think it is thyroid or lung cancer. I know there are a lot of horrible ilnesses in the world but when the treatments are so horrible too it makes it all the worse. I hope scientists can come up with some better ideas on treatments because chemo and radioactivity are frighteningy extreme.
Al