Reply to: Scientists Develop Cancer-Killing Protein

[Platypus]

medical science is making inroads into many of life's biggest killers such as HIV

In fact 7.6m people die each year from cancer whereas HIV has only killed around 25m in total. I'm rather cross that so much money has been spent on AIDS research which could have been so much better spent on cancer - a disease which kills many many more people.

This from 2008!
Experts rethinking billions spent on AIDS - Health - AIDS | NBC News

And from 2010
U.S. Taxpayers Spend Twice as Much Globally on AIDS as on All Other Diseases, GAO Reports | CNS News

It's a scandal. But then again people dying of cancer and children in Africa dying of malaria aren't as "in your face" as activist homosexuals in California

[vetran]

This has the potential to be wonderful news. I am so happy that medical science is making inroads into many of life's biggest killers such as heart disease, HIV, and now cancer. It's a great time to be alive!

+1

it gives hope.

[KentPhilip]

This has the potential to be wonderful news. I am so happy that medical science is making inroads into many of life's biggest killers such as heart disease, HIV, and now cancer. It's a great time to be alive!

[scooterscot]

The only thing I'd say to anyone affected is be a bit more aggressive, insist on examinations until they are sure you are totally in the clear, don't keep believing the assurances they give you, it can all go downhill much faster than you imagine.

Too true. My own father was working on the car one day and was in the ground three months later when diagnosed with prostate cancer. You'll never believe how fast it acts.

[Zippy]

The only thing I'd say to anyone affected is be a bit more aggressive, insist on examinations until they are sure you are totally in the clear, don't keep believing the assurances they give you, it can all go downhill much faster than you imagine.

[xoggoth]

The only thing I'd say to anyone affected is be a bit more aggressive, insist on examinations until they are sure you are totally in the clear, don't keep believing the assurances they give you, it can all go downhill much faster than you imagine.

[DodgyAgent]

The trouble here is that we are all touched by cancer. Directly or indirectly. So if someone pops up with a cure that lacks any proof, logic, scientific validity or context they will be challenged.

[TykeMerc]

Understandable.

It can be a bugger to eat right when just a bit poorly, with stomach cancer and chemo it must be a real bitch just to eat at all.

Suity, people are taking a pop at you because your forum persona is that of a clueless tw@t, you're re-enforcing that view by repeatedly trying to wobble on with some homespun smartarse solution that you feel is amazing, but people doubt is anything more than an old wives tale.
In the context of what's a genuinely life threatening situation for doodab you repeating it is just amplifying your tw@t image to astounding levels.

[doodab]

I do my best to eat healthy but the nature of my cancer means that screwing up my digestion is the main symptom, so my diet is really geared around what I can ingest and digest. Tomatoes, for example, **** me up a treat.

Getting enough protein in is a bit of a problem also, as I don't actually process it very well, so I have to eat a bit extra. So I have a lot of eggs, fish and white meat, but I struggle with huge gobs of red meat. Two months ago I'd eat packets of sliced roast beef from the supermarket as a snack.

[Zippy]

I really was only trying to help. As I said before, my friends mum chose not to take the chemo route, and believes that her method was what cured her.

Bit of a pack mentality forming so I'll scarper before I get more stick while genuinely trying to help.

Pack mentaity?? So everyone is out to get you because you're Suity, not because you are mistaken?
Don't be silly.

[mudskipper]

I really was only trying to help. As I said before, my friends mum chose not to take the chemo route, and believes that her method was what cured her.

Bit of a pack mentality forming so I'll scarper before I get more stick while genuinely trying to help.

Thing is suity, you've said it several times including (I think you said) a PM to doodab. So doodab knows about your friend's mum and has enough information to make his own decision about whether it's something he wants to persue. "Saying it again" doesn't add anything. Having said that, if you're ill, you'd be daft not to try and have a healthy diet with enough nutrients and antioxidants to give you the best chance with whatever treatment you are having. But with the odd exception, where lack of a specific nutrient has caused illness (scurvy for example) there simply is no scientific evidence that diet cures diseases such as cancer.

Most are sceptical about such miracle cures - many, many desperate people try them and a small number get better. Most don't. Think about the same argument with prayer - "I prayed and God made me better." Some believe it to be true, many will give it a try, most won't get better.

[suityou01]

I really was only trying to help. As I said before, my friends mum chose not to take the chemo route, and believes that her method was what cured her.

Bit of a pack mentality forming so I'll scarper before I get more stick while genuinely trying to help.

[NotAllThere]

I'm going to say it again. Consider food related and alternative medicine. My friends mum beat cancer this way....

Well, my friend's dad tried those things and die of mesothalisoma, so that "proves" it doesn't work. So, please, don't say it again.

Eat healthily by all means - the chances are you'll live longer than with a crap diet. But there are no guarantees and stories of people beating cancer through diet, homeoepathy, crystals, chiropracy etc. are so much horsetulip.

Your body cures itself of cancer all the time. It's the way it works. It's only when that mechanism fails for some reason that what we call cancer develops. Even then, sometimes the immune system causes cancer to go away all by itself.

[DodgyAgent]

Not really that helpful a comment was that?

There are loads of cases of it helping people, and I am fortunate enough to know and be able to ratify one of those cases as being genuine. Regardless of what alternative therapies Steve Jobs took, it doesn't debunk it all now does it.

I also think Steve Jobs had an extremely aggressive form of pancreatic cancer and did well to last as long as he did, probably because of the top notch care he was receiving, in no small part to his enormous wealth I'm sure.

And how do you know these !"alternatives worked"?

[TykeMerc]

Positive research, progress being made. We all wish that the breakthroughs would come quicker and easier, but the sheer complications around how many cancers there are and how they work preclude that.

Can only hope that the researchers make more progress and maybe there's a few inspired jump forward events.