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TGF-β is both a tumor suppressor and a tumor promoter.
These data have several clinical implications. First, increased circulating TGF-β in response to cancer therapy should be prospectively investigated and monitored, as it may represent a marker of tumors destined to progress rapidly after therapy.
Second, patients in whom increased circulating TGF-β is observed may bear cancers in which administration of a TGF-β inhibitor can add to the effect of the primary therapy as well as abrogate therapy-related toxic effects such as radiation-induced tissue damage and fibrosis.
Originally posted by Phage
It is a gross oversimplification to say that radiation and chemotherapy cause cancer to spread. It depends on the form of cancer and the individual patient.
Originally posted by Solomons
reply to post by rapunzel222
What? having three people confirm that chemo therapy etc cured their cancer worries you? I'd take that and the millions of other people who have been cured from cancer over this article any day of the week.
[edit on 28-10-2009 by Solomons]
Originally posted by rapunzel222
wow, ..... the replies to this thread really worry me.
i cant believe so many people can be so blind. but i guess you are entitled to your opinions. i can only try to spread the information.
Originally posted by rapunzel222
yeah and what about the millions who have died after having chemotherapy and conventional treatment. and there have been MILLIONs and still continue to be, otherwise no one would be worried when they get cancer, if the cure is so great.
Originally posted by jon1
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago and had radiotherapy as treatment.
I have now been informed that it didn't work and next week i have to have a MRI and bone scan.
If it has escaped the prostate then there is not much they can do, but hopefully it hasn't and i will once again have intense radiotherapy treatment to kill it for good. So although it did not work the first time i hope it will the next.
I would rather have it than not....
Oh, and being a christian guy many people are praying also.
Originally posted by TreadUpon
There are way better cures for cancer than chemo...look into AHCC, what they use in Japan. Goji Juice is another alternative with huge benefits. Dont forget the really cheap option the drug companies cant make a dime on so they wont research...I think its called DCA.
I cant recall the exact number but a rediculous number of oncologists would NOT allow themselves or their families to undergo chemo...I'll try to find it.
Study shows CHEMO and radiation cause cancer to SPREAD
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by rapunzel222
yeah and what about the millions who have died after having chemotherapy and conventional treatment. and there have been MILLIONs and still continue to be, otherwise no one would be worried when they get cancer, if the cure is so great.
You are missing a fairly serous point: CANCER KILLS YOU!
re: 'You WILL die"...
well you are really an a....hole arent you? telling me im gonna die of cancer hey? refrain from posting any further on my thread and you can take this post as an official complaint about your conduct on this forum.
and regarding your assertion that cancer kills you, the whole point is, according to many people, no it doesnt.
many people assert that cancer can be CURED with correct diet, herbs and supplements. i have posted other threads about this. in addition there are numerous accounts that are not allowed to be publicised regarding successful treatments of brain tumours (a cure after 6 months) and breast cancer after using chinese medicine and diet. my chinese doctor has a patient who like me had cancer in both breasts which had gone into her lymph system. she took his advice refused a double mascetomy and normal treatment, and is still alive 8 years later.
fyi: if i DO die, itll probly be down to the effects of chemo which have screwed up my system and side effects can include heart failure years down the track. why that young girl on the news lately has to have a heart transplant after chemo in her youth.