Here's a passage from a new report about "ground-breaking research:"
QUOTE: Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears April 28 in Nature’s cancer journal Oncogene.
The gene and its protein, both called RBM3, are vital for cell division in normal cells. In cancers, low oxygen levels in the tumors cause the amount of this protein to go up dramatically. This causes cancer cells to divide uncontrollably, leading to increased tumor formation... UNQUOTE.
Notice that they essentially discovered something technical (the exact gene and protein), because these "cancer causing" molecules are vital for life. The low oxygen connection to cancer is "old news." If the gene can be "turned off" in the tumor without doing any harm to other cells, it could be a "cure," but it's not clear how easy this will be. Moreover, if there is a lot of stress that led to this problem to begin with, it's likely that some other medical issue will arise, such as organ failure. It seems like many research scientists never even consider that the best they can achieve is delaying a "disease" or swapping one "disease" for another, because they never focus on the underlying stressors that lead to "disease" in the first place.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508115829.htm |
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