THE FLOWER OF LIFE: CANCER UNDER ATTACK

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.

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.

Douglas

*( published in various State of the Art medical journals)