New research forces cancer cells to "grow old and die"

I'm contantly looking for new and promising therapies that may benefit us down the road. I found this Reuters article to be interesting, since cancer is the state where cells bypassing the normal "grow old and die" lifecycle.  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62G4QI20100317 Bill in San Diego

Bill: Thanks for the post. I did see a news clip on this last wk on TV. Promising news I think.

Cajun Jeff

Thanks for the heads up on this development. Keeps the hope alive. As long as the procedure effects only the cancer cells and not the rest of them :-). I'm old enough as it is

All the best to you.

Magaboo

Thanks for posting such, we are all ears on what might be coming. Someday somebody is going to get wealthy with a break through(the best about free enterprise and unhindered efforts), we hope it is sooner than later, and we would (likely)go abroad if it were non-USA and works. Don't know if FDA is even 100% trustworthy and especially today, where Government is more suspect than ever.

My onco-doc believes the 'stem cells' are the ones that are surviving even through hormone therapies including estradiol patches, DES, emcyt (these even can cause direct apoptosis to PCa cells) that destroy alot of PCa cells, but never seems to get them all and there could be cases, contrary where maybe they did. Kind of seems logical as PCa cells seem to make a comeback and morph to higher resistance even through therapies.