CANCER patients in the U.S., other countries, have you seen this...?

in the news at all???





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/713663...





It can be a little confusing, but after reading this is what I make it out to be: First that not all ovarian cancer patients have that protein, and thus do not respond to treatment.





Also take a look at these other links:





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/487605...





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/322154...

CANCER patients in the U.S., other countries, have you seen this...?
Most research is now concentrated on targeted therapy such as the specific proteins found within each type of cancer. It is a long process to research because there are so many variations of cancer and each person is unique.





As for the links to ginger . . no documented evidence exists that ginger alone is effective in treating let alone curing cancer in human beings. Just because a product shows promise in a lab dish does not make it effective for humans. This is pretty much self evident since many cancers grow fast and uncontrollably. Any type of treatment that works . . and I don't care if it is traditional, alt, integrative . . a treatment is a treatment . . but only if it works. Oncologists can measure tumors and cancer by how much they shrink or die during a treatment. There is no great mystery here . . a treatment will either work within a four to six week period of time . . or it won't. Ginger has been mentioned before . . but when it is tested in a clinical sense on real human beings . . there is no evidence that it stops the progression of human cancer or kills the tumors in a sufficiently timely manner. Cancer is fast . . that's what it means . . the uncontrolled growth of cells. A treatment must work within a short period of time or it is rendered useless.





Targeted therapy with the idea that a drug will target the protein causing the abnormality in the cell is already being used in such diseases as chronic myelogenous leukemia and Gastrointestinal stromal tumor . . there is a good margin of success in stopping disease progression with little side effects. People are beginning to be able to live with cancer by using some of these meds, which are far less toxic than the older chemo drugs. One side effect, however, appears to be pigmentation .. my son uses a targeted therapy drug and his hair has turned white. He still looks good to me though.
Reply:It is not that they "do not respond to treatment" but rather do not respond to treatment with that particular drug. This same phenomenon exists for other cancer drugs as well, but it is nice that they isolated the protein in this case.