Experimental drug may halt tumor growth

Great news, thanks for post...

Well, I'm sure it will have bad side effects, but if it works then i dont know what would be worse?

here's the official story or whatever straight from the gunslingers hip

http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2009-jax/5146.html

Why waste money on experimenting and producing highly toxic drugs when there is a natural product that has already been proven to cure cancer (and practically every other disease) - cannabis oil? Perhaps because such a cheap and easily grown and made, unpatentable remedy would ruin the pharmaceutical corporations, so it is kept illegal.

Hope this cancer drug doesn't turn out like the one in 'I Am Legend'. Well, that was a virus . . but still. That would be hilarious if it did. XD

Yeah there's also this thing thats been around for eons that kills cancer too- its called CANNABIS.

NOT talking about smoking it, talking about the chemical compounds that make it up called cannabinoids.

Science has shown that not only do concentrated doses kill cancer cells, halt tumor growth, reduce tumor size of all types of cancers- they have zero negative cellular effects on the human body. Why do you think your body has CANNABINOID RECEPTORS in every cellular system (yes even if you despise marijuana you have these receptors via evolution).....Oh yeah and if you read other medical headlines you will see that the same CANNABINOIDS kill MRSA- staph infections that modern day drugs can not ( my grandmother just died because of MRSA, its a shame ignorance prevented her from getting what could have helped her).

Need a headline?

Taken from WWW.SETHGROUP.ORG

"SETH Group-
The SETH Group brings together scientists dedicated to pursuing the most hopeful treatments for cancer. We are open-minded skeptics who believe that carefully controlled experiments can reveal if there is truth in novel therapies that might be integrated with conventional medical treatments. "

The major active component of the medicinal plant cannabis, Δ9-THC, has been shown in experiments with rats to have therapeutic potential against brain tumors. SETH Group scientists Garret Yount, Ph.D. and Sean McAllister, Ph.D. designed experiments in a time-lapse microscope to test whether Δ9-THC can stop the growth of human glioblastoma multiforma (GBM) brain cancer cells. Using the same tests that are used to judge new chemotherapies, the team discovered that the herbal compound kills human GBM cells at a concentration that is nontoxic to normal brain cells. Click here to see Featured Experiment.
http://www.sethgroup.org/featured_experiment.html

It's not a tumor.

Very interesting. We'll be watching for further details. It inhibits only tumor cell growth? If there's no 'kill off' maybe no toxins are released?!? WE'll see. Good Work!

Testing on human cells, not nonhuman animal cells, is the key to finding cures. More people should follow this example.

what else does it do?!

i'm more than certain that it has super horrible side effects

Pretty interesting. I wonder what the actual efficiency rate and recovery rate is for this drug. I am just putting my faith in medicine to be able to cure cancer easily by the time I am in my elder years.

Why has science forsaken me? I was born a Cancer. I don't understand why science can't go after those wicked Scorpios or stubborn Capricorns instead.

Good post.

Wow! Just think of where they will be able to go from here!

"RS5444" sounds pretty Sci Fi, and "turning on a tumor suppressor gene," I didn't know we had those. Excellent news for all of us!