Comments on: Gene Therapy Brings Three Cancer Patients Back From Death's Door; What Now?

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:53:36 +0000

Can we make it a requirement that comments posted are not from kindergardners?

Cancer needs to be treated, period.

If you dont agree with the treatment, the invent a new one if you think you can.

By: Rebecca Reddoch

Rebecca Reddoch — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:23:31 +0000

Congrats carl barrett. Keep up your spirit of appreciation and pass it on. You will encourage others.

By: carl barrett

carl barrett — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:10:55 +0000

I was diagnozed with this disease several times. Took interferon treatments for a year. BEAT IT. WOW!!! I AM BLESSED!!

By: Rebecca Reddoch

Rebecca Reddoch — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:20:02 +0000

One more hint for the docs managing the waste overload from tumor breakdown. Low sodium diet. Push foods with more potassium. That seems to keep fluid from collecting and stagnating in the body. A lot of this is just about doing whatever you can to flush the waste from the body.

By: Rebecca Reddoch

Rebecca Reddoch — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:58:52 +0000

Cancer is very comlex disease and in fact is many diseases since it is can come from an almost infinite variety of genetic mutations. The docs will learn from this and changes will be tried and hopefully, many decades from now, we will have made some progress. Such seeming baby steps are frustrating to those with Damocles sword hanging over them.

Concerning the ovewhelming of the body’s waste removal systems, some alternative cancer treatmens have already come up with some good supports. The coffee enema, as primitive as it sounds, is pretty good at keeping the toxins moving out of the liver as cancerous tissue is broken down by the immune system. Good hydration is always important. Keeping the skin absolutely free of lotions and chemicals even factors in. Obviously you would support the kidneys with good hydration and constantly monitor in case dialysis was warranted perhaps.

I pulled my late husband, who had liver cancer, out of hepatic encephalopathy on 2 occasions. The first time was brought on by veno occlusive disease from over radiation, aggravated by an episode of eating meat (those proteins need a healthy liver to digest). It resolved with freshly made carrot juice 8 times per day. The second was brought on by hemorrhagic gastritis and a j tube in the small intestine that did not allow for the usual fiber intake to clean the colon. The combination of dying red blood cells and the low colon motility propelled him into grade 3 hepatic coma. The coffee enema pulled him out and gave us a few more weeks with him.

By: Kap

Kap — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:37:40 +0000

I think it’s a great start on what should be a long and interesting journey of discovery and investigation. Congrats to the three patients who were gifted more time. Congrats to the brilliant scientists who’ve figured out the starting points.

And thank you to the reader who reminds people to become platelet donors — it saved my life, and it saved my son’s.

By: angie

angie — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:48:25 +0000

I think this is great progress for anyone with a terminal diagnoses! I think my uncle would volunteer to test it on his terminal prostate cancer! He is a young 45 years old with twin boys who are only 14 yrs old. I think it is safe to say that a few side effects are nothing compared to the death sentence he currently has. He has tried some other experimental treatments which have all failed. HIs cancer is still on the spread! His Dr. here at the UW Madison hospital and clinics say his case is one of the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer they have seen. So If this treatment can help him! Bring it on! Its finally nice to see something that might help given all the money that has been put into cancer research. Even the slightest bit of progress really restores hope…. No need to be kill JOY!!!!! Lets us enjoy this very, very slim margin of hope!

By: fabe

fabe — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:10:56 +0000

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By: lyllyth

lyllyth — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:27:11 +0000

It’s a great step, now they have to figure out how to give these T cells ultra short telomeres, or some sort of definite kill-switch.

The cost of the rest of your ENTIRE immune system is FAR TOO GREAT a price to pay, if you ask me. Although if the choice is dead next month or dead next year, I might pick next year, too.

They’ve turned these trial patients into the world’s first documented non-HIV AIDS patients.
Remember? *Acquired* Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome.

By: Davey

Davey — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:31:13 +0000

My father died from CML leukemia. My son survived ALL leukemia. Both were treated with conventional chemotherapy drugs. They’re horrible. My father’s bone marrow was accidentally killed by the induction chemo. My son had 3 years of puking, a bald head, and prednisone-swollen face. His mental functioning is impaired by whole-brain radiation and he is probably sterile. I’m grateful that he’s alive but I wish it hadn’t been so brutal.

I’m stoked about this research. We need smarter, non-toxic tools.