 |
1/7/2009
Wednesday morning
This topic is closed off and you will be taken directly to the website.
Topics taken from open source list. I hope you find this useful.
This site is for our clients only as an information resource.
| 1964 * Dr. Irving Selikoff publishes a study of asbestos workers in the Journal of the American Medical Association, proving that people who work with asbestos-containing materials have an abnormal incidence of asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. Barry I. Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 4th edition, Aspen Law and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1996, p.126 |
| >Carbone decided to use PCR to test 48 human mesotheliomas stored at the >NIH. He was stunned: 28 of them contained SV40. And the other 20? |
| - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text ->>> My mom, Gunisha Singh, was diagnosed about a month ago with >>> cancer--she has malignant mesothelioma, which is cancer of the inner chest >>> cavity. This is a rare and mostly incurable form of cancer. Standard >>> treatment like chemotherapy and radiation therapy is not very effective >>> against it, and by the time her particular cancer was diagnosed it was >>> judged inoperable by Dr. M.S. Bains of the Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer >>> Center in New York City. >>> As far as we know, the only treatment that can potentially cure her >>> is gene-therapy. Gene-therapy is on the cutting edge of cancer treatment; >>> basically what doctors do is take an ordinary virus like the cold virus, >>> fill it with "suicide genes" that will cause the cancer cells to >>>. |
| > 1964 > * Dr. Irving Selikoff publishes a study of asbestos workers in the > Journal of > the American Medical Association, proving that people who work with > asbestos-containing materials have an abnormal incidence of asbestosis, > lung > cancer, and mesothelioma. > Barry I. Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 4th edition, > Aspen Law > and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1996, p.126 |
| My mom, Gunisha Singh, was diagnosed about a month ago with Cancer--she has malignant mesothelioma, which is cancer of the inner chest cavity. This is a rare and mostly incurable form of cancer. Standard Treatment like chemotherapy and radiation therapy is not very effective against it, and by the time her particular cancer was diagnosed it was judged inoperable by Dr. M.S. Bains of the Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. As far as we know, the only treatment that can potentially cure her is gene-therapy. Gene-therapy is on the cutting edge of cancer treatment; basically what doctors do is take an ordinary virus like the cold virus, fill it with "suicide genes" that will cause the cancer cells to self-destruct, and then inject the virus into the chest cavity. So far this treatment has been very successful. My mom was waiting in New York to get into a gene-therapy treatment program at t. |
|
