Laptop containing possible cancer cure stolen in Oklahoma

Researchers in Oklahoma are offering a $1,000 reward for the return of a stolen laptop which they claim contains a possible cure for prostate cancer.

Sook Shin and her husband, who work as cancer researchers at the Oklahoma University, decided to take a break from their work on Sunday to get some dinner. When they returned to their car they found it had been broken into and their Macbook had been stolen.

Unbeknownst to the thieves was that the device contains years of research into prostrate cancer, some of which can never be replicated, while others will take up to two years to redo.

Worse than that, the couple never made a backup of their data, which means that someone out there has the only copy of the valuable information, if it hasn't been wiped already. Why researchers would fail to make a backup boggles the mind, considering how easily a laptop can be stolen or how often hard drive failures occur, but even the brightest minds in science can make a fatal mistake.

And it could indeed prove fatal for many, as 30,000 men die in the US every year from prostate cancer, making a possible cure all the more essential.

Shin told local reporters at News 9 that she feel so guilty about the loss of the data, while her husband, Ralf Jankecht, pleaded with the thieves to return the laptop with the data intact, saying that it would be doing a good deed for society as a whole.

If the device is returned a $1,000 reward is on offer, with “no questions asked”, which could be more than it's worth on the black market. It remains to be seen if the thief hands it in or not.

Cancer Cure found by Cleveland University Professor, then they cut the funding!!!

DO NOT LET THIS THREAD DIE PEOPLE..
How many of you have close loved ones who are affected by Cancer every year..
or affected yourself.. well if you aren't yet..chances are you will be eventually.
From 1900 to 1950.. One in 50 people would get cancer.. or 2% of the populus..
Today that number is 6 in 10 or 60 PERCENT! Wake up idiots ..we are being conditioned
by the medical mafia to just accept this as truth and roll over and die! We are each one worth over $100,000.00 to the establishment from the time we are diagnosed to death!
Is it possible that there is a cure for cancer?

A Cleveland State University professor believes there is.


“Your best discoveries are from something you weren’t expecting,” says David Anderson, the associate dean of Cleveland State University.

That’s exactly how this breakthrough happened.

Kalafatis was working on a research project related to genes and blood coagulation. His students added a special compound to human cancer cells in a petri dish.

The compound killed the cells. This wasn’t the point of the experiment…


He’s since tested almost 60 different types of cancer. Tumors dramatically shrink – or are ..

entirely killed. And even better… there’s no damage to surrounding tissue or healthy cells.

Guess what happened.. they cut off his funding! How many times is this going to happen for the sake of greed.. it's purely disgusting

Cancer cure 'found' in Peking Duck

A MIRACLE cure for cancer and heart disease has reportedly been found in the UK, a British tabloid reports.
The Daily Express reports an extract of red yeast rice – the ingredient which gives Peking duck its colour – may slash cancer deaths by two-thirds and heart disease by a third. Heart disease is Britain’s biggest killer.

The extract apparently out-performed cholesterol-lowering drugs (known as statins), and reduced the chance of a repeat heart attack by 45 per cent.

Researcher David Capuzzi, director of the cardiovascular disease prevention program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said: “It’s important to recognise we do not know exactly how Chinese red yeast rice works.”

Doctors have warned that taking large amounts of the rice can cause liver damage.

Could crazy creature help us cure cancer?

There are a few contenders for the title of “weirdest critter in the world”. There is, for example, the three-toed sloth of Central America, which plays host to an entire ecosystem, including cyanobacteria, insects and other creatures that live in its sticky green fur.

Then there is the bizarre star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata, the only tentacled mammal, whose nose contains 30,000 microscopic sensory organs and which probably “sees” the world through touch. Or the mole-like Pyrenean desman, which looks like it has been put together out of random components — part rat, part mole, part shrew and part platypus. But surely the award must go to the mysterious and curiously engaging naked mole rat, Heterocephalus glaber, which is so weird in every respect that it resembles a creature from outer space.

Not only is it so unlike any other mammal that it almost seems to deserve its own category, but scientists now believe it may hold the key to curing cancer - and even, as Prof Steve Jones has mentioned before on these pages, extending the human life span. Uncommonly among mammals, mole rats do not get cancer, and last week, scientists announced that they have finally discovered why. They hope the “gloop” that they have identified in the animal could, in due time, form the basis of a host of new medicines to treat not only cancer but diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to arthritis.

It seems odd that the naked mole rat could spark any kind of medical revolution. In terms of its ecology and physiology, these animals are outliers. Naked mole rats are small, almost hairless rodents, about four inches long, that live in eastern and southern Africa. They are the only known “eusocial” mammal; the structure of a mole rat colony is identical to that of hive insects such as bees, and other arthropods such as termites.

There is one female, a queen, who mates with a handful of fertile males; the rest of the colony, which may number 80 or so, consists of sterile “workers”. That is only the start of the weirdness. They are, as their name suggests, naked (or nearly so — the odd whisker sprouts from their faces). They can run backwards as fast as forwards, and can manipulate their goofy incisor teeth individually, like chopsticks.

Unlike all other mammals, naked mole rats are not truly warm-blooded: they regulate their temperature in a crude fashion, more like a lizard than, say, a mouse. The oddities continue. Mole rats, which live off underground roots and tubers, appear not be able to feel pain, at least on their skin. The pain receptors found in all mammals — called nociceptors — are there, but they appear to be turned off, as German scientists found when they studied the way the receptors reacted to being immersed in corrosive chemicals. Douse a naked mole rat in acid, and it will not flinch. (It is finding out how these nociceptors operate that could be the key to new treatments for arthritis.) Mole rats can also survive extraordinarily high degrees of carbon dioxide, which builds up in their tunnels to levels that would kill a human in minutes.

In terms of cancer, numerous studies have failed to find a single tumour in the thousands of individuals sampled. Finally, there is the curious fact that these little rodents live for around 30 years — 10 to 20 times the life span of relatives such as rats and mice. For most species, there is a rough correlation between size and longevity. Big animals, the theory goes, tend to live longer because they are less likely to die quickly of cold or starvation or be eaten. Thus genes that confer health into old age can be passed on. That is why whales and giant tortoises live longer than shrews and mice. Mole rats should live a few years at most, but instead they can outlast chimpanzees. It is, however, that resistance to cancer — which is probably related to their longevity — that has proved the most intriguing puzzle. Now, Vera Gorbunova and colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York have identified a polysaccharide — a gloopy, sugar-based natural polymer - found in naked mole rat cells that stops tumours growing. The scientists, whose study was published in the current edition of Nature, suggest that the finding “opens new avenues for cancer prevention and life-extension”.

The chemical, called high-molecular-mass hyaluronan (HMM-HA), acts as a kind of lubricant, allowing mole rats to squeeze their Plasticine-like bodies through the smallest and most convoluted tunnels:

“They can virtually turn somersaults in their skin,” Chris Faulks, a scientist at Queen Mary, University of London said this week. It seems, therefore, that the ability of HMM-HA to confer cancer resistance was a happy evolutionary accident. And one day, it may be possible to engineer the ability to produce HMM-MA in human tissues — hopefully without the side effect, as Dr Faulks says, of making us all end up looking like naked mole rats.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that an extraordinary feature in an animal has been seized on as a possible cure for human ailments. While the thesis of Dr I. William Lane’s Sharks Don’t Get Cancer, published in 1992, is now widely held to be incorrect, crocodiles have an extraordinary ability to fight off bacterial infections: injured crocs have been in bacterially infested swamps, blood pouring out of open wounds, yet remained infection-free. Then there is one of the most intriguing findings of recent decades — that chimpanzees do not get Aids, despite being susceptible to the same group of retroviruses as humans. In fact, it is now believed that the Aids epidemic started when the virus jumped species from ape to human, probably in the forests of west Africa around 100 years ago, as a result of a hunting accident or by consumption of ape meat.

While chimps can get infected by the virus, they do not go on to suffer the disease: the reason why may lurk in the one per cent of the chimp genome that differs from ours. That we can solve medical mysteries by looking at our close cousins is not surprising; yet finding that an animal so weird, and so ugly, as the naked mole rat could one day lead to a cure for cancer seems utterly bizarre. However, this creature has gained the respect of an increasing number of scientists: robust to the point of near-indestructibility, living in perfect conflict-free communes, immune to pain and capable of spending years underground at a time, this meekest of animals could, should the apocalypse strike, be in pole position to inherit the Earth.

Cure for Cancer found

It's a headline that many of us never thought we'd see in our lifetime, but it would appear that researchers have finally discovered a cure for Cancer.
Scientists from the University of Bunkum-on-the-Wold claim that if you're not born between the 21st June and the 22nd of July, there is no chance that you will be cancer.
The news was met with rapturous applause as the waiting journalists gathered to hear the long-awaited announcement. It's now envisaged that the government will effectively halt all planned spending on research into the disease and channel it back into the arms race and trying to find Dusty Bin Laden.

Canadians among least optimistic cure for cancer is imminent: Poll

 

For all the running, cycling, ribbon-wearing, and head-shaving done by residents of Canada and the western world, we are actually the least optimistic that a cure for cancer will be found within our lifetime, suggests a new international survey.

Photograph by: File , CNS

For all the running, cycling, ribbon-wearing, and head-shaving done by residents of Canada and the western world, we are actually the least optimistic that a cure for cancer will be found within our lifetime, suggests a new international survey.
According to the Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for Canada.com, residents of this country are the fourth least likely, among international residents surveyed, to believe a cure is within reach.
Fifty-one per cent of Canadians surveyed said they believe a cure is imminent.
The only nations more skeptical were Germany, Italy, and Hungary. Following Canada, was Britain, the United States, Poland, France, Belgium and the Dutch.
Meanwhile, 78 per cent of Indians surveyed said they believe a cure for cancer will be discovered before they die.
Argentina, China, Mexico and Russia were also among the top five most optimistic countries, followed by Brazil, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
"I just wonder whether part of the optimism is benign or blissful," said Ipsos Reid pollster John Wright, noting confidence was strongest in countries that are arguably less sophisticated in terms of their medical knowledge.
"Other countries that are on hot pursuit everyday trying to find a cure for this, their populations know that it's much more difficult."
Terrence Sullivan, president and CEO of Cancer Care Ontario, said talking about a cure for cancer is difficult, because of the many facets of the disease.
"Cancer is not one disease — it's hundreds of different diseases," said Sullivan, who is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
"It's not like saying you're going to reduce heart disease or eliminate HIV infection.
"The whole idea of curing the disease is a very good aspiration, but what we're learning is effective ways of winning the game of yards with cancer," he said.
"The disease that killed Terry Fox would likely not have killed him if he were diagnosed today — not because of one big bang, but because of multiple developments in technique, from surgery to chemotherapy to radiation, that would have given him a better shot at survival," he said. "It's not a silver bullet, but it's multiple weapons that are being used now."
Sullivan said a general sense of optimism in some countries may spill over into the realm of medical advancements, despite the odds being stacked against an all-encompassing cancer cure being discovered any time soon.
"India is having a spectacular decade with respect to their economy, so there's no reason to believe this wouldn't confer greater buoyancy," he said. "Economic development improves life expectancy, so there are real relationships there. Countries that are showing rapidly expanding economies will have optimism."
Wright, the pollster, said he considers himself among the 49 per cent of Canadians who believe a cure is imminent.
That said, he said he can sympathize with those who appear less hopeful.
Noting five of his wife's friends have beat breast cancer in the past five years and are now leading healthy lives even though some have undergone mastectomies and hysterectomies in the process, he suggested the poll may be more a sign of "sober thought."

"The question was whether or not we're ever going to see a total cure," he said. "Maybe what were seeing in this is . . . maybe not a cure, but maybe a management of it. Maybe the capacity to deal with it and an understanding that it's not a death sentence. It's just a conditional quality-of-life issue."
He suggested cancer is now a disease that's "under control" and that fewer people are dying from it than was the case 20 years ago.
Sullivan mirrored those thoughts and reflected on his own career when discussing the progress made in the field of cancer research.
"Twenty years ago, when I first got exposed to the field of cancer, survival rates were pretty poor, but today, close to two-thirds of the population (with cancer) is living five years or more," Sullivan said, adding that the key for Canada is "being organized and aligned as a country so we have well-organized, articulated plans" to combat cancer.
"In many common types, like prostate cancer and thyroid cancer, about 95 per cent of the population living five years or more from those conditions."
Some conspiracy theorists argue that should a cure actually be found, the billion-dollar cancer research industry might cease to exist, putting thousands out of work. But Wright doesn't buy it.
"I think in this age of transparency, where you can announce something in the morning on Twitter or the Internet and in the afternoon the entire world can know about it, I just don't think that's a valid issue," he said.
As part of the poll, more than 24,000 adults were surveyed in 23 countries representing three-quarters of the world's GDP.
The poll is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Burzynski: Cancer Cure Documentary /movie online/

This document is personal, it will touch you hard with Burzinsky´s message. "The trillion dollar cancer industry has been waging an illegal and immoral war on Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski for years, attempting to stop him... that's right, STOP him, from saving the lives of cancer sufferers through the use of his patented breakthrough therapy, which uses a natural and non-toxic substance called antineoplastons. 

This video tells the story of how Dr. Burzynski, and the patients his therapy has cured of what are normally terminal cancers, have fought the FDA and the big drug companies who have continually and systematically tried to discredit and punish a man who's only purpose in life has been to develop and perfect a life-giving and non-toxic cure for the disease of the 20th century. Please spread the word about Dr. Burznski and donate to the cause or offer your support in any way you can. Don't let the in-humane and evil actions of the FDA (the puppet of the drug industry) destroy the hope of millions of cancer sufferers around the world. It's time to unite.... Go to burzynskiclinic.com for more info." (official You tube video describstion)