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...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60, and I have been watching family members die from cancer all my life, among them nonsmokers with lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but if they did, how many people would no longer be needed? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, LEVITTOWN...
...Cancer is indeed all the rage. Nevertheless, this is the one trend you don't want to follow. It is an all-consuming beast which comes uninvited and changes your life forever. If you survive to tell the tale, your life changes for the better. At 21 years old, I have very recently slain this beast after a relatively brief encounter with it. I consider myself lucky. Chemotherapy and radiation used to eradicate Hodgkin's lymphoma might make you look really unattractive, make you feel like a miserable pile of nothing and bring forth an array of various other discomforting...
...read with interest your article on cancer. I myself was operated on last summer for prostate cancer. I am 74, so I hope for the 99% chance for the next five years. However, my opinion on cancer is that it is simply creation in reverse. Otto V. Ludvigsen, HOLTE, DENMARK...
HSCI co-director Douglas A. Melton and his colleagues have successfully created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells using a chemical that can replace two of the four potentially cancer-causing genes previously needed to reprogram adult cells into a mutable state. The findings, published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Biotechnology, open another avenue for researchers hoping to create iPS cells that are safe for treating human disease...
...need to be really open-minded,” Huangfu said of finding safe alternatives to the cancer-causing retroviruses. “I think that this brings us one step forward, but we are still not there...