My Dear Friends. It has been, needless to say very strained weekend for
many, but if I may say this: When one door closes another opens, and I
am encouraged to have learned about the following. I have been in
contact with the N.C.I. and they are and will be providing information
on clinical trials in the near future. So, with this very good news I am
hoping we can come together, with a sigh of some relief, in unity to
shout with glee that finally what we have been strained and in stress
about, may be coming to a conclusion of great hope and cure. Pls join me
in praying for that. I am certain you will find the following article to
be the best HOPE we have had to date about cure, God Willing.
God Bless
marty auslander
2 DRUGS MAY BE CANCERS NEMESIS:
HEALTH: Angiostatin and endostatin are shown to halt the disease in
mice. HOpe is high for human tests.
Within a year, if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be
injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any, ANY, type of cancer,
with no obvious side effects, and no drug resistance - in mice.
Some cancer researchers say the drugs are the most exciting treatment
that they have ever seen. But the expectations are tempered with caution
as that the history of cancer expectations of high hopes, are dashed
with remarkable effects in animals and then tested in people.
National Cancer Institute has made the drugs their top priority said
Dr. Klausner, the Director. I am putting nothing on higher priority than
getting this into clinical trials".
The new drugs, angiostatin and endostatin, work by interfering with the
blood supply tumors need. Given together, they make tumors disappear and
not return.
So far, the drugs are the only ones ever tested that can seemingly
eradicate all tumors in mice, even gigantic ones, equivalent to 2 pound
growth in a person. The best that other cancer drugs have done is slow
the growth.
The drug discoverer, Dr. Judah Folkman, a cancer researcher at
Childrens Hospital in Boston, is cautious about drugs promise. Until
patients take them, he said, it is dangerous to make predictions.
Other researchers are not so restrained. "Judah is going to cure cancer
in two years", said Dr. James Watson, a Nobel laureate.
Results of mice tests follows (Not for the weak hearted).
After 15 days, the researchers killed the mice and cut them open. As
more than a dozen scientists gathered around a table in the laboratory,
the first mouse was opened. It had huge tumors filling its lungs. Then
Dr. Folkman checked a noteboook to see what the animal had received:
salt water. They looked at the next mouse. NO tumors. Folkman checked to
see the treatment: angiostatin. And so it went. All 10 of the mice that
had b een injected with angiostatin were free of cancer. All 10 of those
that had been received salt water had huge new tumors.
A picture of the mouse in the article clearly indicates that the cancer
shrunk to almost nothing, but sometimes returned when treatment stopped
with either endostatin or angiostatin. AFter several weeks of
injections with both drugs, the cancer shrinks to nothing and does not
return.
Orange county Register dated may 3, 1998.
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