Cure For Cancer? How a 150-Year-Old Theory Might Help Turn the Corner on Cancer Research
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Avis_Bridgers]Avis Bridgers

At a time when the discovery of yet another cytotoxin or combination therapy for combating cancer seems less than exciting, an old and almost forgotten theory re-emerges to bring new understanding to an age-old disease and new hopes for a cure for cancer.

The theory of cancer stem cells or "germ" cells was first proposed about 150 years ago. However, the theory, which posits that random DNA mutations can turn any cell in the body into a cancer cell, that any cell is as likely as the next to begin tumor growth, has been the basis of cancer research and therapy for many years. With this theory, the mechanism of metastasis remains a mystery, and cancer therapies are focused on ablation of rapidly dividing cells that make up the tumor with radiation, systemic cytotoxins, or both.

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Although my primary focus is on alternative treatments for prostate cancer I nevertheless spend time also, keeping up to speed with the latest research and studies for conventional treatments. One of the best online websites for this has to be TTMed Urology. It provides a valuable resource for urologists and therefor can get a little too technical for the layman at times but that's not the stuff you want anyhow. Get past the technical, medical jargon and the information is spot on. A great way to keep up with Urology News and  for best the latest, conventional medical, advice on your Urology problems,

Anyhow, why not give it a try. You'll need to subscribe, I suggest as a student or such, but there is no cost.

PRESS RELEASE TTMED UROLOGY
November 16, 2011
   

TTMed Urology announces upcoming launch of new design and special features

TTMed Urology, the free-access global medical education portal for health professionals in urology, has announced November 28th as the launch date for its new design that will feature improved navigability, structure and content organization. This is the result of months of research and programming based on valued input from TTMed Urology members. The new design will give urologists even easier access to the high-quality, pertinent information published on TTMed Urology.

Some of the new features will include:

More user-friendly content structure and organization
Improved website usability and navigation
A more straightforward registration process, making it easier to become a TTMed Urology member
Enhanced website connection with social media

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Cancer Stem Cells News

Almost half prostate surgery patients develop metastasis and this report attempts to explain why that is:

Researchers zero in on the Cancer stem cells pathways that allow cancer to bounce back after treatment.

It is this secondary growth, or metastasis, which is the one that invariably kills.

Invasive surgery, such as a prostatectomy, encourages the migration of cancer cells in the blood, allowing them to

gather elsewhere in the body, another organ perhaps, to form a tumor.

I believe  CANCER STEM CELLS  open up a totally new, and very promising research field for cancers of all types.

Aaron A. Rowe

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/email/html/8943sci2.html

Fish oil supplements 'can slow growth of prostate cancer cells in just four weeks'

The prime objective of Alternative Treatments for Prostate Cancer    is the optimizing of one's immune defense,  providing the foundation, or base, upon which all other treatments are able to work.  An essential part of that optimization is with the taking of dietary nutrients, minerals and other vitamin supplements.

Where at all possible though, I would emphasize, these should be acquired through 'natural' sources, particularly organic foods, fruit and vegetables. However, this is not always possible given the depleted state of soils sorely lacking in natural goodness, plus the over processing and contamination; with additives such as chemical coloring and  preservatives, of food in general.

It is both natural and reasonable therefor for people to seek the answer to their daily needs through supplements. And why not?  As I have mentioned in earlier posts, research on this point shows there has never ever been a death attributed to the proper use of VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS. Read the rest of this entry »

The debate concerning whether or not men over 50 years of age should undergo routine PSA blood test screening has been around for a number of years and always raises considerable controversy. With each new study we get a different finding to the previous one. Even oncologists and urologists are unable to find agreement within their respective specialty.

What cannot be disputed is that the overwhelming evidence is that  PSA blood test screening are in themselves unreliable and to some degree, subjective, as relates to the proficiency and expertise of the pathologist doing the blood analysis. Two identical samples tested by two pathologists will often produce two differing results.

It is not surprising then that PSA BLOOD TEST SCREENING  invariably subject patients to unnecessary inconvenience, anguish, pain and expense enduring follow up tests or procedures, or both, and which can cause impotence and incontinence. Moreover, there is no evidence to say that such treatment actually saves lives. So why do it?

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The following article, for which permission to re-publish is granted by the authors subject to full attribution, is in line with my normal subject matter, ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS FOR PROSTATE CANCER  and goes a long way to helping dispel the misinformation widely distributed by drug and pharmaceutical companies concerning the safety and efficacy of nutritional medicine.

With the advent of the internet people are far more aware and educated about their health issues and are no longer totally beguiled by, and at the mercy of, their allopathic medical professionals. Hence the rapid movement away from conventional medicine and toward NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE. This new public awareness and change of attitude and dependency is a definite challenge to the profitability of the drug and pharmaceutical companies and they are determined to fight a rear guard action  with lies and  disinformation. This article provides well researched references showing the true facts of the matter…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 3, 2011

Free, Peer-Reviewed Nutritional Medicine Information Online

No Evidence, Eh?

(OMNS, Oct 3, 2011) Many of our readers have written to say that when they try to talk to their physician about using nutritional medicine, the subject is promptly dismissed. Furthermore, such dismissal is often accompanied with doctor statements such as, “I have not seen any good research showing that vitamins work therapeutically.”

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Over the years, Big Pharma’ and the Pharmaceutical  companies, have been telling us repeatedly of great, new, Prostate Cancer Cure, wonder drugs but all to often these announcements have (coincidentally?) come at a time when new research funding is being sought  and that’s the last we hear from them. They get the dollars and then disappear back into their research laboratories, the ‘CURE’ never to be heard of again.

Today, and with a lot of fanfare, we hear of another PROSTATE CANCER CURE.

CZ BioMed Corp,in the United States, say they have produced a new  prostate cancer cure, Prorvysylin, in the form of a oncolytic virotherapy. which is a genetically engineered virus.

Oops! That sounds awfully similar to the dreaded Flu vaccines being produced these days – concoctions full of deadly poisons – many of  which do more harm than good. Not that you will hear too much about the negative side effects of vaccines from your medical doctor.

It remains to be seen if this new ‘CURE’ does any good at all or simply joins the other conventional prostate cancer treatments as being next to useless.

Anyhow, click  here to check it out for yourself…