THE FLOWER OF LIFE
CANCER
UNDER ATTACK
I
have been waiting for some good news instead of all the darkness I
seem to have got stuck in the last years. The following was broadcast ed on all Swedish TV channels some months ago and were
published in Swedish media four weeks ago.
Before I continue I want you all to know that I am not an oncologist and the information shared must be taken in with a healthy distance and maybe your own participation to trace the sources, the subject matter and the present state of being, before any conclusive deductions can be made. I wish to emphasize that important scientific findings by no means automatically are being implemented for reasons of economy, even when the clinical reliability has been accepted by the researches and the physicians.
During the AIDS epidemic it became apparently clear that poor nations could not finance the remedies available unless they broke international and domestic legislation with regards to patenting. Brazil, which was developing an extensive epidemics simply copied the drugs without asking and thus saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Unethical ? Not in my book. I am not an idiot and I do understand that the production of drugs, like any enterprise, is expected to make profits to reinvest in further research and production, or not. I am not a Drug Baron and regard the Brazilian criminality as pardonable. But that´s just me.
Before I continue I want you all to know that I am not an oncologist and the information shared must be taken in with a healthy distance and maybe your own participation to trace the sources, the subject matter and the present state of being, before any conclusive deductions can be made. I wish to emphasize that important scientific findings by no means automatically are being implemented for reasons of economy, even when the clinical reliability has been accepted by the researches and the physicians.
During the AIDS epidemic it became apparently clear that poor nations could not finance the remedies available unless they broke international and domestic legislation with regards to patenting. Brazil, which was developing an extensive epidemics simply copied the drugs without asking and thus saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Unethical ? Not in my book. I am not an idiot and I do understand that the production of drugs, like any enterprise, is expected to make profits to reinvest in further research and production, or not. I am not a Drug Baron and regard the Brazilian criminality as pardonable. But that´s just me.
Swedish
(nationality does not matter) scientists have discovered and
developed a medically promising remedy protein that targets cancer cells only and, according to lengthy research, stops > 70 %
of further growth and spreading. Only determined fractions of the
protein are used which do not attack healthy cells in the vicinity of the tumor as does current chemical treatment. They are only
activated by the malign tumors which they enclose and fence.
And
in addition: we do obviously do not have to wait a decade for it to
be clinically evaluated because the job, so we have been
informed in all media, is already done. What is needed are funding to start to produce the drug which is not an exclusive, high cost treatment if drug companies do not declare war on one another as so
often before and delay the production and distribution or as a
consequence produce a substance that can be afforded by the most
affluent only.
The
scientific world seems, so far, to close ranks and cooperate to make
it available globally as soon as possible. We may be able to avoid
unethical greedy drug companies to monopolize it for a decade,
according to the Swedish scientists. This is by far the greatest
obstacle. Swedish scientists are of no significance once they have
published their findings and are often, as are all scientists,
rapidly dismissed by the drug companies and cartels. Since the
potential of immense financial profits are spectacular we are
responsible to monitor the drug companies with a keen eye, civil
disobedience and a big and loud mouth !!!!
Together
with scientists from Singapore Swedish scientists also found
that Hypoxia-induced
and calpain-dependent cleavage of filamin A regulates the
hypoxic response and
in addition to the a/m protein which by being cut to a fraction stops
70 % of further metastasis growth*
This
time is seems to be for real ! Let us pray the scientists are right.
At least it seems very plausible they are on the right track ! The
treatment has been given not only to rats but is currently used to
treat patients in Sweden and may be instantly available to all
nations that are interested as far as we are being informed.
If
this is yet another publicity stunt the media will have to suffer the
consequences as well as some of Sweden´s most prominent scientists
and oncologists. We cannot afford to raise the hope for millions yet
another time.
If
this proves to be the case we all have to act and strip the drug industries of their omnipotence and arrogance. The legislation is
already up to date but we also know that the often monstrous drug industry is two steps ahead to secure gigantic profits.
So
let us stay alert ! If we do not monitor and do follow ups ourselves
the train may be very, very late...
And
STOP, you lords of the drug companies and high tech research if you
are only looking for attention ! Legally you will be on very thin ice
if we surprise you with your fingers in the raspberry jar or are
taking us for a ride again. Such steps must be regarded as severely incriminating and sanctioned with penalties accordingly.
We are not without responsibility to follow up and keep us informed of the development of the subject matter. Hitherto the powerful drug companies seem to occupy themselves with fighting one another and kept us ignorant of important results.
We are not without responsibility to follow up and keep us informed of the development of the subject matter. Hitherto the powerful drug companies seem to occupy themselves with fighting one another and kept us ignorant of important results.
Douglas
*( published in various State of the Art medical journals)
