[Dean's World] Dean: The Hope

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Posted by Dean:
The Hope
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   by George L Gabor Miklos, PhD and Phillip John Baird, MD PhD

   Cervical cancer demonstrates the generic way ahead, with its exemplary
   diagnosis and treatment involving regular PAP smears and liquid based
   cytology. Of the projected 560,000 cancer deaths in the US in 2007,
   only about 4000 will be due to cervical cancer. In parts of Asia,
   however, cervical cancer is the biggest killer of women because
   diagnosis is either not performed or left too late.

   Increased investment is needed in imaging and screening technologies
   for early detection such as nanotechnologies that are able to detect
   whether cancer cells have left the primary tumor and accumulated in
   lymph nodes (98). It is time for early diagnosis and prevention to
   take precedence over research aimed at shutting down cancers after
   they have spread (99). Cancer agencies, well meaning charitable
   organizations and foundations need to stop being automatic teller
   machines for basic science (100).

   One immediate preventative measure is staring everyone in the face.
   More people in the US will die from lung cancer in 2007 (approximately
   160,000), than all the deaths from colorectal, breast, pancreas and
   prostate cancer combined. Tobacco usage is also a risk factor for the
   development of many other cancers. Stop its usage and the incidence of
   lung and other cancers will be greatly reduced.

   "Failure is not crime. Failure to learn from failure is." --Walter
   Wriston, former chairman of CitiCorp

   It is time to heed Walter Wristonâs warning. The failure of various
   institutions to learn from failure is a tragedy for cancer patients.
   If the current mindset is not replaced, the next 30 years will be a
   carbon copy of the last. The losers will be members of our families,
   our neighbors and our friends. (This concludes our week-long series on
   problems with the current state of government- and corporate-funded
   cancer research. This entire article (published in 7 parts here on
   Dean's World, but is in fact a single unified piece) will be available
   in full at [1]www.securegenetics.com. I'd like to thank Drs. Miklos
   and Baird for the opportunity to allow Dean's World the first
   publication. Remember to click the "related posts" links below, from
   the bottom up, to find the references and then read the entire series
   as a single article--or wait for it to appear on the Secure Genetics
   page. --Dean)

References

   1. http://www.securegenetics.com/