visit infowars : )and look some of this stuff up

See the following link for a description of apoptosis: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=860#more-860

@Scotch again:
This might give very good information and research fodder to scientists like yours truly (yay), but it would make a lousy cancer treatment drug. The drug appears to be untargetted (if that is a word) so it will also hit the cancer cells. The whole point of chemo-therapy is to convince the cells to kill themselves and/or the body to kill them. Taking this drug during Chemo might just protect the cancerous cells from apoptosis… and in the words of Egon, “That would be bad.”

BTW, congratulations on surviving cancer (in a sad/blunt few words). God Bless the rest of your health.

BTW, that’s a good thing, as you say. I think there is no question here that if the drug were permanent, that’d be BAD.

This blog doesn’t go into enough detail to really decide if it would be worth the side effects or not.
I would have to do much more investigation into this treatment before I decided weather to take this treatment or not. But I do beleive it is a step in the right direction as long as it is used properly.

first, how is saving cells with damaged DNA good? the body destroys these cells for a reason. in extreme cases i can see the long term effects trump the short, but it sound like we are just fighting cancer with cancer.

second, death by radiation is the most horrific way to die. you essentially drown in your own blood over a period of days to weeks. now i doubt that the animals being tested on were given such extreme doses, but how can scientific achievement be built on this overtly inhumane treatment of animals.

a civilization can not be built on oppression

And btw, the FDA’s drug trial program is the single most thorough evaluation system in the world… for ANYTHING… by a landslide. They check and recheck and recheck research to a level that you cannot imagine. I personally was absolutely astounded when I learned the extent of this process.

In addition, “Big Pharm” is responsible for discovery, function, efficiency, and production of most of the drugs that you take for basically anything. If it were not for Pharmaceutical companies, you would probably never have been born and if you had, you would have had a slim chance to reach the age that you are now.

Also, a single ATTEMPT at producing a drug for cancer treatment typically costs “big pharm” $500,000,000 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) and many of those drugs fail and are trashed. In addition, those drugs that pass the FDA approval process have been patented for long enough that the patent is nearly expired. As soon as that happens, the drug company is SOL.

These researchers and studies are paid for by the pharmaceutical indusry. Big Pharma can and does influence the way the research is done and the results that are concluded. They only care about stock prices and making billions of dollars. They could care less if the drug works or if it significantly contributes to 20,000 new cases of diabetis or the proliferation of suicide/murder cases around the world.

It’s all about the almighty dollar to Big Pharma.

“Protectan CBLB502, tested in mice and monkeys, protects radiation-blasted tissues by shutting down this cell death programme, which the body normally turns on in cells with damaged DNA to keep them from multiplying”

So now the cells with damaged DNA are allowed to multiply? Way to override the body’s natural wisdom. What crazy new forms of tumours is this drug going to cause?

Its not protecting the cancerous cells, its protecting the NON-cancerous cells =P