Thursday, January 5, 2012

CBC News - Wednesday January 4th. Cancer Chasing the Cure

'The National' CBC's news hour last night, ran a feature on Cancer Cures. The news item talked about undelivered hype such as that which surrounded Interferon in the 1980's.  But, it seemed that the news item was shallow and lacked research. They neglected the DCA discovery in the University of Alberta and the clinic in Toronto. There were no interviews with members of the Medicore team at the Toronto DCA clinic.

They also failed to mention promising research being done in the Research Labs of Ottawa's General Hospital. And, they neglected to step outside the fold into the work being done by Dr. Simoncini in Italy and the stories of thousands of people who have overcome cancer by taking alternative journeys.

They did, however touch on what natural treatment is already doing - and that is strengthening the body to heal itself.

The following excerpt is from the CBC website:
An area of cancer research that didn't deliver the expected short-term results now seems more promising — using the body's own immune system to do the fighting

Tumour-fighting soldiers

Immunotherapy was hyped by the media in the1970s and then largely forgotten by the public. Researchers studying ways to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer have continued their work.
Scientist Pamela Ohashi at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto is one of them. This spring, Ohashi said she and her colleagues hope to start a study on patients. It would be a first in Canada that uses some of the immune system's T-cells to fight cancer.
T-cells are a type of white blood cells that have the ability to specifically recognize a target, such as a flu virus.
In Ohashi's study, the T-cells, called tumour specific lymphocytes, come from a patient's own tumour. The experimental approach first treats patients with drugs to deplete their blood cells to give the tumour specific T-cells more room and nutrients to do their job. Then the patients own T cells were reinjected.


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