Antibody Finds, Wipes Out Prostate Cancer: Study

Dec 28 04:59PM

US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down (http://topics.breitbart.com/Prostate+cancer/) prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday.

The antibody, called F77, was found to bond more readily with cancerous prostate tissues and cells than with benign tissue and cells, and to promote the death of cancerous tissue, said the study published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Science (http://topics.breitbart.com/PNAS/)
PNAS).

When injected in mice, F77 bonded with tissue where prostate cancer was the primary cancer in almost all cases (97 percent) and in tissue cores where the cancer had metastasized around 85 percent of the time.

It recognized even androgen-independent
(http://topics.breitbart.com/cancer+cells/) cancer cells, present when prostate cancer is incurable, the study by researchers at the
(http://topics.breitbart.com/University+of+Pennsylvania/) University of Pennsylvania showed.

F77 "initiated direct cell death of prostate cancer cells... and effectively prevented tumor outgrowth," it said.

But it did not target normal tissue, or tumor tissues in other parts of the body including the colon, kidney, cervix, pancreas, lung, skin or bladder, the study showed.

The antibody "shows promising potential for diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, especially for androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancer," which often spreads to the bones and is difficult to treat, the researchers wrote in (http://topics.breitbart.com/PNAS/) PNAS.

Currently, the five-year (http://topics.breitbart.com/survival+rate/)
survival rate for metastatic prostate cancer is just 34 percent, according to the study.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men, claiming half a million lives each year worldwide, according to the
(http://topics.breitbart.com/World+Health+Organisation/) World Health Organisation.

I read that. Sounds very promising. There was an article recently on a breakthrough for breast cancer also.

Sounds like research is homing-in on some major killers. The sooner, the better.

now if only the FDA gets off their dead bureaucratic asses

to much money in research grants to get a cure. someone will block it. take the money out of cancer research and off bounty there would be a cure tomorrow

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to much money in research grants to get a cure. someone will block it. take the money out of cancer research and off bounty there would be a cure tomorrow

The company who finds a cure for cancer will have a license to print money...until the Gov't steps in.

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to much money in research grants to get a cure. someone will block it. take the money out of cancer research and off bounty there would be a cure tomorrow

On the contrary there is not nearly enough, especially compared to the deaths by cancer. How you figure that less money which equals less research would somehow promote finding a cure is beyond me?

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to much money in research grants to get a cure. someone will block it. take the money out of cancer research and off bounty there would be a cure tomorrow

The company who finds a cure for cancer will have a license to print money...until the Gov't steps in.

The basic problem is that "cancer" is not one disease but a vast complex of often quite different health problems that we lump under the generic term of "cancer".

There will be plenty of blame to go around.

HIV-AIDS is a good example. Reagan (the government) failed to take the problem seriously and act, until the country's blood supplies were thoroughly tainted, and innocent people were dying of the virus through blood transfusions. American researchers wanted credit for any advances, so they blocked the French who were way ahead of us in finding a cause/cure.

In the end advances will be made to fight prostate and breast cancer, and others; but they have to find the cure for egos first.

Why is it that everyone in this group thinks that there's a vast conspiracy to screw up everything?

OXO,

I think it's classified information; but, my vote goes to greed. Corporate and individual. Find a cure, set up a hospital on the Caymans and find out what being a Trillionaire feels like. That kind of money could erase the entire US deficit in about eighteen months.

Rich