. Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer .

Dear Friends,

I received a letter from a surgeon in China asking for help in
diagnosing and treating a rare case of "neuroendocrine cancer".
The following is what I received.  Please reply to me through
e-mail, or contact Dr. Li Faying in China directly through either
fax (011-86-791-626-2262) or snail mail:
        Dr. Li Faying
        Dept. of Surgery
        The second Hospital
        Jiangxi Medical School
        Nanchang, P.R. China 330006
Thank you.

Rong
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Dear Friends,

I am sending out this letter to ask you for help in diagnosing
and treating a case we have not seen before.  The patient happens
to be a Professor of Orthopedics of the same hospital.  The following
is a summary of his medical record.

The patient is Zou Ziyun, male, 58 yr old.  He was admitted because
of frequent micturition and dysuria for three years.  No history of
hematuria.

Physical Exam:  The prostate was found to be twice as big as normal by
digital exam via rectum.  The surface of the prostate was smooth.  In
additional, a mass of about 1.5 cm in diameter was found in the rectal
wall at 11-2 o’clock position at 5 cm depth from anus, with the patient
in the knee-chest posture.  The mucosa covering the mass appeared normal.

Blood:  ESR 50 mm/h.

The rectal mass was removed per anus under caudal anesthesia on Oct. 5,
1995.  The mass was not found to be related to the prostate.

Immunohistochemistry of the removed mass showed CEA, Glu ChG-A,
and VIP positive cells.  Stains for NSE, PSA, PIAP, serotomic, PP, or
Soma were negative.  It was concluded that it was neuroendocrine
carcinoma.  The majority of cancer cells secreted glucagon, some
secreted VIP or neutral mucus.  Surrounding tissues were found to be
infiltrated by the cancer, including submucosa, smooth muscle, and
connective tissues.

On Oct, 14, 1995, a exploratory laparotomy was performed.  Although
there was no sign of distant metastasis, the prostate, seminal vesicle
and
the neck of the bladder was found to be invaded the cancer.  In addition,
 several enlarged lymph nodes were found in the pelvic cavity.  No mass
was found in the rectum.  The prostate, testicles, and  lymph nodes in
the
pelvic cavity were then all removed.

The cancer cells found in the prostate, bladder, and lymph nodes from the
pelvic cavity were similar to the cells in the rectal mass.

Your help in diagnosing and treating this case is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Li Faying, M.D.

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Thank you all in advance,

Mike C.

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of skin cancers and I always tend to it before they get over three
millimeters across. Most of my cancers reoccur from time to time. I
use two drugs, one over the counter. One is Efudex containing
fluorouracil, an anti-cancer agent. It is applied to the lesion
anywhere from daily to weekly, depending on side effects. The other is
clotromazol. It is found in the market in Mycelex and other
ointments. Some cancers respond well to it and some do not. Some do best
with the use of both ointments. I experiment. I have had a cancer in
my ear which was very resistant, but after four months it is gone,
at least for now. Good luck          and…@nccn.net

Breeden Hamer (bha…@pacifier.com) wrote:

: I am going to make a guess about your sunlight hypothesis. Generally
: speaking, the closer one is to the equator, the harder he works the
: poorer he is. This tends the diet toward bulky foods, lessens obesity,
: increases exercise, etc.. Additionally, the average age of folks in the
: tropic climes is less than those north of the Tropic of Capicorn. All of
: these factors would naturally affect the incidence of prostate woes in
: the general population.

By now you will have seen the statistics on the thread:

Men’s Health and Prostate Cancer Programmes

showing the difference in the various cities in New Zealand, all of which
is a fairly temperate climate. I mean to get the UV data as well as the
sunshine hours, but even the ordinary daylight may play a part. Dunedin
has short winter days and long summer days when, with daylight saving, it
is not really dark till 10 pm?

It would be interesting to do a study controlling for the factors you
mention. And what would be the result of a study controlling for actual
light factors, rather than just taking cities as I have done?

As for melanoma, isn’t that due to irregular UV exposure? Note that
Dunedin figures are worse than Christchurch. It’s puzzling that melanoma
does not always occur on exposed parts of the body. There are other skin
cancers, too of course.

And I wonder what part vitamin D has to play in this (UV helps produce
it)? I think the research says it is anti-cancer. But too much
supplementation may cause spine trouble or cerebrospinal hypertension if
it goes with the vit A from fish liver oil of high content like halibut in
excess. And that may affect the nerves to the urinary – genital organs.

Brian Sandle. Shell to snail? bsan…@southern.co.nz

To whom it may concern:
  My name is Robert Thoburn and I am a third-year biology (pre-medicine)
student at the University of Waterloo. Currently I am searching for the
latest information concerning the use of viruses in gene therapy,
specifically, the treatment of cancers. This is in an effort to complete
a poster project for a survey virology course I am taking this term. I
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researchers to contact, etc. which would assist me in discussing how
viruses are being used in gene therapeutic practices.Unforunately, I am
unable to receive e-mail, though I may be faxed at (519) 885-3515.I
apologize for this inconvenience.
  Thank you very much,

  Robert W. Thoburn.

I would like some bibliographic information and any other, about a
higrohemangioma of the face in a girl three years old. She started a
tratment with corticosteroids but had no significant improvement. Can
somebody please, send me places where I can found information on the
net? I would also appreciate the adress of a listserv on this subject.
Thank you very much.
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Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.announce.newusers,news.answers
Subject: How to Get Information about Networks
From: netannou…@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:00:38 GMT

Archive-name: internet/network-info/part1
Last-change: 11 May 1995 by netannou…@deshaw.com (Mark Moraes)
Changes-posted-to: news.admin.misc,news.misc,news.answers

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Subject: Introduction.

This is a periodic posting on how to get information about the Internet and
how to get information about connecting to the (US) National Science
Foundation’s NSFNET through an NSF-affiliated regional network, or to get
commercial Internet service through a commercial service provider.

Because the contents of the documents referred to in this posting are
constantly being updated, this posting only describes how to obtain a
current copy rather than providing the data directly.

In this document, electronic mail addresses, commands that you should use
and other such references are indented by a single TAB character
(may appear on your screen as some number of spaces, typically
When you use the reference, do not include the TAB.

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Subject: Table of Contents.

        1. Introduction.
        2. Table of Contents.
        3. The Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC).
        4. Internet documents and specifications.
        5. Commercial networks.
        6. Contributors.

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Subject: The Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC).

The Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC) makes current
documentation on the NSFNET available via a mail server, by anonymous ftp,
gopher, WAIS and the World-Wide Web.  If all else fails, you can contact
them by phone.  The InterNIC has a wealth of documents on the Internet; by
the time you finish reading the introductory ones, you probably won’t need
this posting any more!

+ Getting information via electronic mail. (some sort of E-mail access needed)

If you’re on some sort of network that can send and receive electronic
mail from the Internet, you can get various documents from the InterNIC’s
automated mail server.  Send mail to

        mails…@is.internic.net

and leave the "Subject" line blank.  Here’s a suggested initial message:

        begin
        help
        index
        send about-infoguide/about-infoguide
        end

Be sure your mailer puts out a valid "From:" line that the server can
respond to!  If you have problems with the reply (eg. you don’t get
a reply within a few days), try sending the same message with the line

        reply YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS

after the begin line.  Make sure YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS is one that can
be replied to from the Internet.  Ask your site’s postmaster for
help, if you need to.

+ Using Gopher (Internet access needed)

Use your "gopher" client program to connect to
        gopher.internic.net

eg. on a typical Unix machine, try
        gopher gopher.internic.net

or, if you do not have a gopher client installed, you can use a
"telnet" client program to connect to
        gopher.internic.net

eg.
        telnet gopher.internic.net

When you get the login: prompt, reply

        gopher

+ Using the anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP) (Internet access needed)

Use your FTP client program to connect to
        is.internic.net

eg.
        ftp is.internic.net

When you get the login: prompt, reply

        anonymous

and follow the instructions on your screen.

+ Using Wide Area Information Services (WAIS) (Internet access needed)

source name: internic-infoguide
server name: is.internic.net

+ World-Wide Web (WWW) (Internet access needed)

With your WWW client (eg. Lynx, Mosaic or WWW), give the reference

        http://www.internic.net/

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Subject: Internet documents and specifications.

General Internet information documents are available from the
DDN Network Information Center (which is part of the Internet).
There are several "For Your Infor

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Jane

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