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A massive amount of science to the tune of $700M to 1 billion goes into the production of a new blockbuster drug. Big pharma needs to be big. The science is highly regulated and lightyears beyond the "snakeoil" stage. Although one can say that there are a myriad of areas were the science can become slanted we have a clear idea of what constitutes good science in pharmacology. And so does the TGA in Australia and FDA in the USA. This is an area not frequented by engineers but (if I recall) there is more medical/biological scientific literature out there than the rest of science put together. Just pick up "Science" magazine and you will get an idea. Congratulations if you can understand the biological articles. I can't. Oncology is an advancing science and we don't have a cure for cancer for everyone yet but for some diseases it cures most people. And radiotherapy? An anecdote might give you a little perspective. A patient of mine had melanoma of the maxillary sinus (under the cheekbone) treated with radiotherapy 40 years ago. A fatal tumour "cured". She now has developed a completely different tumour (squamous cell carcinoma) in teh same place. She might die from this tumour which would seem likely to be due to the radiation therapy given 40 years ago. We are awaiting the results of a further course of radiotherapy.
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Everybody wants a "cure" for cancer, but then people get all uppity about reprogramming our DNA. I don't think we can have it both ways. Seems like an error correction problem with our software that we could just apply a security patch to. But no no no, modifying our DNA is unethical. Oops, is my transhuman showing?
As for treatments, anyone heard more about nanoparticles? Last thing i saw was about gold nanoparticles that if they could get to bind selectively to cancer cells, could then be illuminated with IR to heat up and destroy the cells they're bound to. No poisons, no ionizing radiation, and very minimal collateral cell damage. Quick googling shows some hopeful progress as of 2009, but looks like its only good for skin cancer due to the low penetration depth of IR.
Is there a window of transparency in our tissues anywhere in the spectrum above X-rays? Maybe the nanoparticles could be excited with RF instead of light? We'd prolly just give the patient RF burns though, huh?
At the least, if this treatment makes it through clinical trials skin cancer will be pretty much defeated. Bronzed People Rejoice! (i don't know about any of y'all but i'm as pale as my skin allows. i need to get a new bulb for my metal halide and get my cactus garden going again. its as good as the sun without the hassle of leaving my computer plus the cacti are beautiful )
sorry for going even further off the original topic. all i know about mercury is that i need to stop leaving FL/CFL tubes around where they can get broken. as for quackery...seems like its alive and well, you just have to slap some "these statements not evaluated by the FDA" smallprint on the bottom of the ad and you're free to sell all the snake oil you want. *sigh*
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