The evolutionary nature of cancer implies, contrary to conventional wisdom, that the essential features of any therapy for the consistent cure or control of cancer must be independent of the particular pathways of tumor cell evolution, and independent of any particular genetic or epigenetic alterations.
To learn more and for a more detailed discussion of requirements for the prevention and cure or control of cancer, please read or listen to the three-part New Cancer Mentality interview series, Cancer in the Post-Genomic Era: Where do we go from here?
Cheer up the old folks with a cup of tea, invent the cure for cancer, soak up that excessive production of beer, grow vegetables, whatever.
Within the context of these requirements, the cure or control of all types of cancer is a solvable engineering task.
Three conditions must be jointly satisfied by any therapy for the consistent cure or chronic control of cancer: Comprehensiveness, Specificity, and Knowability.
"I was then told that Hodgkin lymphoma was one of the easiest forms of cancer to cure and the treatment is very successful, " he said.
Before the advent of the anti-angiogenic VEGFR inhibitors, kidney cancer cure rates were on the order of 5%.
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At the same time, we are seeing increasing rates of diseases and conditions that tonsillectomies can prevent or cure, like infections, and even cancer, of the tonsils.
What can be known, sharply defines requirements for the cure or control of all types of cancer.
There are plenty of foods that help cure cancer, so there is no need to eat meat.
There is some combination of atoms that will yield a cure for cancer.
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The required cell population that must be targeted (killed or controlled) to cure or control cancer, is the set of all malignant cells that could evolve.
How then does the country get the doctors and scientists it needs to develop the drugs and medical technology that may provide early detection or a cure for cancer, diabetes or the hundreds of other maladies that plague the world?
"We're not going to be able to protect endangered species in the future -- whether it's elephants in Africa or whether it's rare plants that might be producing the cure for cancer, " said Jim Jontz of the Endangered Species Coalition.
The world will increasingly recognise that in the case of pandemics, as with heart disease and cancer, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Most of us will never discover a cure for breast cancer.
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It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.
In Vietnam many believe that ground rhino horn can be used to cure cancer - although there is no scientific proof of this - and horns taken to the the Middle East are used to make handles for ornamental daggers.
That has led, over a long period of time, to far better cure and survival rates for cancer, for heart disease, than we have in Britain and ultimately we have to not worry so much about the system as do we actually give people in Britain the health care we deserve, and that's what I want to see.
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Unrealistic expectations of modern medicine to achieve a cure, especially in some patients with cancer, post-cardiac arrest, end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease and major stroke.
It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American, including me, by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.
Josh Sommer, the founder of the Chordoma Foundation, was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare cancer of the skull and spine with a 30% cure rate and no approved drugs.
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Not one to rest on his laurels, he has already looked for another treatment that could further extend the lives of patients for whom Gleevec was no cure, and also work against cancer in the patients who did not respond to the drug at all.
Find the cure for cancer, tend to the sick, nurse the elderly, take care of the children: whatever.
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Once infected, there is no cure, but if discovered, the disease can be managed, and the risk of cancer or other complications can be significantly reduced.
Androgen-Independant Prostate Cancer is what all of these treatments are trying to treat, not cure.
To cure (or control) cancer requires the comprehensive detection and destruction (or control) of an enormously diverse, unpredictable, evolving population of cancer cells in a patient.
At a gathering of 120 scientists in September, Milken introduced Garo Armen as the man who may cure cancer.
For the superrich, money can represent power, prestige, influence--or a certain measure of immortality, if it is ultimately used to finance some visible endeavor like finding a cure for cancer.
It turned out that the virus used to deliver the gene therapy was also inserting itself into cancer-causing areas of the genome, and not just where it was needed to cure the kids.
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