It has been well known for decades that platinum and compounds of platinum kill cancer. In fact, most chemo drugs for cancer are platinum compounds. It has been widely reported in the alternative medical community that platinum nanoparticles in colloidal form will also kill cancer. Do the nanoparticles kill cancer by the same means as the compounds? Is there scientific data available that details the mechanism?
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I had not heard of that info before. \nI would advise you to do what I did - when you wonder about the scientific value of some data you found, run it through the NCBI database. It is the clearinghouse for scientific data. \nI queried "platinum nanoparticles cancer" and found 5 publications. It seems there are Phase I studies about platinum nanoparticles, the main advantage seems to be the drug delivery right to the tumor. However, there does NOT seem any data so far that would support any overwhelming optimism, even if the alternative community sees this differently.\nRead some of the article summaries yourself, they're quite interesting.
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The good news is that breast cancer is very treatable today.  My Mom was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer two years ago.  (There is no Stage V)\n\nShe was on a few different kinds of chemotherapy, I remember Taxotere being one of them.  She also took medicines to bind estrogen and androgens since her cancer was estrogen receptor positive.  That is, estrogen feeds the tumors.\n\nOnce the tumor markers were down to a normal level, my Mom then had a lumpectomy and followup radiation.\n\nToday, about 2 years later, my Mom is in remission and cancer free!!  It can happpen!  I hope your relative has a great story to tell too!!
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Most compounds contain ligands or are charged so as to be physiologically useful to the body. For example, lidocaine is a sulfate salt, as the amine group in the compound is protonated.\n\nThe salt is listed second because it's just a form of the compound (e.g. the way that the compound is being administered).
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You're pretty much spot on WRT thepoteins. Formalin also causes DNA damage by both physically breaking the DNA strands and altering the tertiary structure.
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Hard to say without more information regarding prior treaments (cisplatin/taxol?) A general rule in cancer treatment with chemotherapies is that the response time between treatments continues to get smaller and smaller (e.g. respond for 6 months, relapse, respond for 3 months, relapse, respond for 1 month...etc).  Good luck.
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Cancer, in whatever form, can strike at any age. Some people are just more likely to develop cancer more than others and little can be done about it. It's what of those illnesses that strike, without warning, and can change a person life in an instant.\n\nThe cell that has cancer can move all around the body and affect different parts.  The cell will grow and produce more infected cells along the way. Chemotherapy is an option for some, depending on severity. It is often a painful process and does not offer 100% guarantee to rid the body of the cancers cell.s\n\nYou really should look it up on the net to find out all the possible causes and symptoms to get a good overall idea.
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HIV disguises itself as white blood cells by displaying the proper antigens. Chemo kills white blood cells by actually poisoning them, because chemo selectively kills rapidly dividing cells. HIV is a virus, not a cell.\n\nThe reason chemo does not work, therefore, goes something like this: if you dress a manniquin up as a security guard and put it in a mall, the other security guards will ignore it, because it looks like one of them, but then if you fill the building with poison gas, that will kill the security guards, but will not hurt the manniquin, because its  similarity to the security guard was only skin deep.
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sodium most active\nthen lead\nplatinum very inactive\n\nThat's the order they would occur in on any activity series.  Plus, sodium is on the left of the periodic table so it's most active.  Explodes in water.  Platinum never corrodes, that's why it's used in jewelry.
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never heard of it but as far as i know nothing cures cancer they can treat it to control it and remove it but it may still come back later on
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If you search http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ for Lingzhi it will tell you what type of research is being conducted for this type of mushroom. There is nothing conclusive yet that it is a 'miracle drug that cures cancer' . . however, at some point in combination with other substances it may have some effect on some types of tumors. Sounds exactly like alot of other types of herbs and drugs that are under clinical investigation.\n\nEnjoy your plant or better yet, donate it for research.
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unfortunately, it is possible for cancer cells to mutate and evade chemo drugs.\n\nthe principle here is to hit the cancer hard (hence the side effects on the rest of the body) and take out all the uncontrollably-dividing cells with strong treatment, and not give them a chance to evade. your doctor had to choose the dosage to give you based on this principle.\n\nthe problem is that once cells reach the cancer state, they tend to just start mutating like crazy. some of them won't live, but some will be even more out of whack than their predecessors. mutations are the enemy in cancer. hopefully the drug will do its thing before this happens.\n\n*best of luck to you* in this fight! keep your spirits up. my mom got through a very rough battle with ovarian cancer almost 20 years ago now and while she never forgets all she went through, she is alive and doing pretty well. i wish you all the best.
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No, not rat poison.  Although, I've heard people refer to coumadin (a common blood thinner) as rat poison.\n\nanyway, some types of cancer fighting drugs are made from dna from mice.  They are called "murine" drugs and include Rituxan and Erbitux.\n\nOther chemotherapies are actually antibiotics, or some come from plants actually.  They block DNA synthesis at different points in the cell cycle.  They are a type of poison, in a way, because they are usually toxic to healthy cells as well as cancerous ones.
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Yes, these are called endohedral fullerines.  Some molecules of C60 were found with forms of helium trapped inside in the Sudbury crater in Ontario (endohedral heliofullerines).  \n\nSome paleobiologists hypothesize that the pre-biotic chemicals that led to the development of life on earth were transported inside of C60 polyhedrons on the surface of meteorites.  There is also a significant amount of medical research around potential uses of "Buckeyballs" to safely deliver toxic medicines to specific cells or to bacteria, or to encase radioactive metals in resonance imaging, which would shield the patient from the radiation.  \n\nAs a side note, when "Buckeyballs" (short for Buckminsterfullerine) are doped with metallic atoms, they are called "Dopeyballs."  If the opportunity ever arises to use the word Dopeyballs in a sentence, I would highly recommend it.  :)\n\nAnd as for the strength of the molecule, endohedralism has no effect on the bond strengths within the C60 molecule itself, because the encased molecule and the C60 are both electrochemically inert; if anything, I would imagine that if an encased chemical exerted some attractive or repulsive force on the C60 cage, it may weaken its structural integrity.  Dopeyballs (yay!), on the other hand, are significantly stronger and more resilient due to the strong bonding and electron pull of the incorporated metal atoms.
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The above is not complete. Don't have time to go into details, but check out this website:\n\nhttp://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/cancer/index.html\n\nI suggest reading the entire chapter if you don't have time for that, I suggest the section on Tumor Biology and the treatment section
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I am quite not sure of what xtc you are referring to but I am certain that if it is a kind of drug or substance, it is purely an urban legend. Everything in the body fluids undergoes process of absorption, metabolism and elimination so I cannot think of any substance that won't be eliminated from a body for a lifetime.☺
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It depends on the type of titanium and platinum as there are many variations. Biocompatiblity wise gold is very inert as well as Ti. Ti is often used in medical devices that are implanted in people.
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I had cancer in my colon,bladder, ovaries and appendix. I was on chemo before and after. It was called Xeloda. I was on it for 6 months. It is in pill formation and it has alot less side affects. I had no hair loss and very little nausea. I read in recent articles that it is just as effective if not more than other chemos available. It was giving to me by a local hospital and then by Memorial Sloan Kettering. Ask your oncologist about it but always listen to what they think is best for you. There are over 3,000 different chemos and they would know what would work best for you. I'm Cancer free for a year now and I wish you the same. Good Luck and God Bless!