Re: Dying of leukemia - any hope?

From: Robert (projecttoday_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:25:17 -0400

I was under the impression there are no tumors in leukemia.

"doe" <ironjustice@aol.comdoe> wrote in message
news:20040713150650.25422.00001509@mb-m29.aol.com...
> >Subject: Dying of leukemia - any hope?
> >From: "Robert" projecttoday@yahoo.com
> >Date: 7/12/2004 4:44 PM Mountain Daylight Time
> >Message-id: <10f6571sagc4008@corp.supernews.com>
>
> >Do we have to give up?
>
> 'Conventional' .. thinking .. as evidenced BY the followup posts .. seem
to
> tell you .. YES .. give up ..
>
> Heh .. heh ..
>
> Notice not one of them mentioned the medical study placed here not more
than
> two weeks ago .. ?
>
> THEY .. don't REALLY give a fk .. buddy .
>
> Here is the latest ..
>
> TARGETING of the .. iron ..
>
> J Neurooncol. 2004 May;67(3):367-77. Related Articles, Links
>
>
> Desferoxamine (DFO)--mediated iron chelation: rationale for a novel
approach to
> therapy for brain cancer.
>
> Dayani PN, Bishop MC, Black K, Zeltzer PM.
>
> Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA.
>
> Iron homeostasis is crucial to normal cell metabolism, and its deficiency
or
> excess is associated with numerous disease states. The association of
increased
> iron load with cancer may be due to several factors including free radical
> production, reduction of the body's protective mechanism to combat
oxidative
> stress, inhibition of immune systems, inhibition of essential nutrient
> functions, facilitation of cancer growth, suppression of antitumor actions
of
> macrophages, and lowering of the ratio of T4-T8 positive lymphocytes.
> Antiproliferative effects of desferoxamine (DFO) both in vitro and in vivo
are
> mediated by an intracellular pool of iron that is necessary for DNA
synthesis
> rather than prevention of iron uptake from transferrin. Several clinical
> studies have shown it to have antitumor activity in the treatment of
> neuroblastoma, leukemia, bladder carcinoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Human
> neural tumor cells are susceptible to the effects of DFO. Continued study
of
> DFO is necessary to further elucidate its antineoplastic profile and its
use as
> an adjunct to current chemotherapy regimens. Given the lack of
satisfactory
> treatment of central nervous system neoplasms, DFO could serve as an
important
> tool in the management of such cancers.
>
> PMID: 15164994 [PubMed - in process]
>
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