I am a pharmacy student and am working an a research project dealing
with, specifically testicular cancer. What I am in search of are the
warning signs, chemotherapeutics used, and life expectancy, among other
numerous questions rthat I will post later.
THanks,
Joe
Recently I heard about some new treatment for people with
bone methastases.
I will try to describe it.
The first step is to take bone marrow of the patient.
Then a suspension of very small plastic globulus is added
to the bone marrow. These globulus are coated with monoclonal
antibodies. They also contain iron molecules.
What happens is that they will surround the cancer cells in
the solution. Then a strong magnetic field is applied to the
solution so that the cancer cells are pulled out of the solution.
In this way it is possible to obtain a very good
separation between cancer and normal cells. It should be
possible to remove 1 cancer cell from 1.000.000 normal cells.
After intensive chemotherapy the patients own (filtered) bone
marrow can be put back.
My question is: has anyone heard of this treatment, has
experience with this treatment or knows where it is used ?
Thanks,
Hans Arts
han…@euronet.nl
A question…….
"The Modern Prometheus" is better known as?
Is it some form of cancer?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Murt……
A family member (46 yr. old male) was just diagnosed with spindle cell
sarcoma. The tumor origonated in the large intestine, was removed 3 years
ago and diagnosed as "probably not malignant." The origonal tumor, along
with another in the lg. intestine, and a third (pea sized) in the liver
were removed last week. The path results suggest that it is "low grade."
Does anyone have any ideas about treatment other than chemo or radiation?
There was a suggestion of him donating his own bone marrow, and then
killing his other cells before replanting the bone cells, but no doctor
can be found who does this to adults. Chemo is tentatively set to start in
about 2-3 weeks.
Hi my name is Dustin and I am doing a Math Project and I would like you
to answer a few questions for me.
Do you think people with incurable diseases will be able to have their
bodies frozen and stored until a cure is found? yes…no…maybe…
name or initials:
age:
sex:
e-mail response to du…@hargray.com
Thanks a lot!!
This is a plea for help for parents of a 19 year old who has been
diagnosed with Astrocytoma Grade III/IV Brainstem tumor. They would be
grateful for ANY information about research, clinical studies, therapies
including gene therapy for this condition.
Please email me at dmoo…@uoguelph.ca.
Del
I’m looking for information on medical accelerators. I have a project
in helping design a new accelerator. Any information in beam current,
energy, frequency, time required for a therapudic dose, etc would be great.
Also info on what companies design and sell these would be great or where
they advertise and such.
Thanks
Mark P. Winslow, win…@engin.umich.edu
I have some question regarding colon cancer treatment. The
background is that my father was diagnosed with colon cancer
2 years ago. The biopsy showed puncturing ("pinhole") of the
colon wall. They removed the blockage, and he was treated
with chemotherapy in the form of 5FU for just over 1 year.
Just last week they discovered a tumor in his lymph nodes of the
pelvis so it is being termed regional (I guess that is since it
hasn’t traveled far from the colon) and his liver looks fine.
His CEA is 8.0 and the plan is more chemotherapy
(5FU for four 1 week treatments) followed by the decision
to operate and/or radiation treatment. He is looking into
alternative treatments to boost antioxidant levels.
I am curious of people’s opinions and experiences with
"Barley Green" food supplement, shark cartilage treatment,
and pycnogenol which I believe is a French tree bark extract
similar in theory to taxol. Any info on these and 5FU
would be appreciated. Thank you.
Penny
pa…@virginia.edu
—
Still trying to obtain some more information about Malignant Fibrous
Histeocytoma for a friend who had such a tumor removed two weeks ago from
his buttocks. His physicians, oncologist and surgeon were surprised that
this cancer had NOT spread elsewhere in his body. After his initial
diagnosis, a daily regimen of radiation was prescribed to shrink the
tumor. After this successfully reduced the tumor, surgeons removed it with
good margins — allowing him to still have full use of his leg. We are
looking for ANY information about prognosis, additional treatment, etc.
Any info can be e-mailed to me at paseat…@aol.com. Thank you in advance.
PASeat…@aol.com
Mark Phillips
Benzene in Paw Creek Part 2
To All Concerned, Interested , etc:
I just spent three hours sifting through facts and figures of an air
sampling done in our area in
1993. A lot of it was very confusing to someone who doesn’t have a
chemistry degree. But I
understood enough to be fuming mad.
It seems the State agencies modeling showed the Benzene levels to be
somewhere around
8000% higher than acceptable lvels. That jacks our expected cancer case
risk up to about
1400% higher than what is expected as average. However the models used to
feed to the
citizens by the local County Department of the Envrionment, where the
models supplied by the
American Petroleum Industry Council. Talk about selling out to the enemy.
Of course there
models still showed Benzene at levels of 700% higher than what could be
considered
acceptable.
I am sure somewhere within the masses of paper these people in the
committee have collected,
are equally damning statistics. Here is the question I pose. We have
contacte the national
media, local media doesn’t have the knowledge to know what they are
reading. The local officials
who are supposedly on our side with the knowledge can’t be trusted, and we
can’t afford to hire
someone to help us fight. We have lawyers who are representing us in
mediation, however it
looks as that is a stall tactic to drag this out on the part of the oil
companies. Our lawfirm is
supposed to be the best. They sued the same oil companies over the same
circumstances in VA
and won, and the represented the residents of Alaska against Exxon.
However that does help
those of us breathing in the benzene now.
does anyone out there know anyone who out of the goodnessof their heart
would be willing to
look at the data from the states report and gives back a summary of just
what it truly means in
reality. I think i know what it means, but if I go up against PHD’s at the
local EPA I am sure I will
get shredded. An evaluation of the data by another professional would not
so quickly get
shredded. Please anyone out there who can help let me know.
It seems that law only works for the rich and not the poor and uneducated.
Right now I have lost
all and total faith in my county governement. I am angry. I no longer want
to protest, educate,
argue, or fight. I just want to sue the pants off of them and then torch
the whole tank park.
I am open to any and all suggestions, support and anything else you have
to offer.
Dawne W Echols
Information Services
PawCr…@aol.com
Paw Creek Environmental Health and Safety Committee
P.O. Box 571
Paw Creek, NC 28130-0571
(704)393-9300
pawcr…@aol.com