Cancer Definition and 210 Threads

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and it just occurred to me, that the ion weapons used to disable droids, ships and other electronics would cause serious harm as well, to living beings, if they got accidentally hit by a bolt. Ionized radiation can give a person cancer, and the amount of microsieverts to...

Here's an article(labeled as opinion) I just read from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/opinions/chemicals-in-clothes-harmful-health-wicker/index.html This OP is only a starting point; I intend to look into the issue more deeply. But from what I see, this article (not unique these days) is...

Would it be possible to remove cancer from blood samples with the aid of centrifugal forces to separate it out by weight? I do realize cells can have similar densities but what if the machine was really precise?

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-white-blood-cells-cancer.html The challenge is to find a way for our own macrophages to recognize cancer cells, i.e., discern cancer cells from healthy cells. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01031-3 (Subscription or purchase required)

I am trying to build an argument against a friend (F) who is presently not an anti-vaxxer, but is heading in that direction when he told me that a friend (FF) of his told him (F) that his (FF’s) doctor told him that his Covid mRNA vaccine caused his lymphoma. Of course, FF either misinterpreted...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/09/mrna-covid-vaccine-booster-lymphoma-cancer/671308/

Scientific American June 2, 2022 Vol 32 Number 6 Page 62 Title: Skin Cancer around the World Two Quotes: “The main cause of skin cancer is the exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays…” “UV radiation is about 40% stronger in New Zealand than it is at corresponding latitudes in the Northern...

The FDA has been constantly trying to take away this doctor's license away for 40 years, and many says the doctor is a quack. But apparently there are many patients that back him and claim that the doctor cured them with antineoplastons. Many patients had brain cancer which is untreatable in...

Initial success rate reported as ≥25% and improving. Overview: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00241-0 Couldn't find the technical report.

What are the most common types of cancer caused by exposure to excessive amounts of radiation?

We study cancer to get better at killing it. And here is an enouraging detail: Since 1975, the cancer death rate in the United States has decreased by 21.9% with a 15% decrease from 2007 to 2017. (https://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2017)

God loves crabs so much, he is trying to make everything into crabs. So what is it about crabs that humans hate? The term for "convergent evolution to a crab-like form" is carcinization. Which as the same root as carcinogen - meaning cancer. The zodiacal symbol for the cancer sign is a crab...

Can someone name some terminal illnesses other than cancer?

Richard Dawkins, a famous evolutionary biologist, thinks there is an evolutionary connection between cancer and the immune system. To paraphrase his work, autoimmune diseases are the result of the evolutionary arms race between the body and cancer cells. I'm not an immunologist nor a cancer...

I did a quick google search and there some places that say carbon nanotubes can CAUSE cancer, and other places say that doctors use it to TREAT cancer. Nanotubes cause cancer. Nanotubes can treat cancer. So what do I do? If I were to handle them or make them myself, what do I need to do to...

Please help understand how to solve this question. Sorry for the terrible English. If there’s 10% chance of getting cancer from microwaves, and 3% of the population gets cancer, what is the probability that a certain person who have cancer and was exposed to microwaves got it as a result from...

Summary: For fictional purposes, looking for a cancer which has a very low survival rate but which a patient might be fighting for 1-2 years I'm sure that this is actually a fairly common sub-genre of medical questions, authors asking for a disease to fit a story. I have a lot of side...

Here's an excerpt from a cancer biologyhttps://www.antiox.org/article/78: Is CTC50 and IC50 the same, in cancer biology. According to this book, CTC50 (Common toxicity criteria 50) is the concentration of drug which can kill 50% of total cells/ inhibit 50% of the cell growth. Here's a link to...

Interesting paper: Chandrayee Ghosh et. al., Super-enhancers: novel target for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma I haven't yet read the whole paper (which is free-access), but I believe it is worth a read.

Hi, just wanted to know does sleeping to much or to long cause cancer? Does not sleeping enough cause cancer? does not sleeping enough or to much raise blood pressure and possibly give me diabetes? Does all citrus acid fruits like lemons bad for the teeth and damage tooth enamel?

crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190416]First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway[/url] The study takes immune cells out of the patient, modifies them...

Just curious. Based on studies I’ve read, I am assuming this because the cells have to divide to recover from wounds/injuries. Therefore, DNA has to be replicated and there’s a chance of a cancer-causing mutation to occur.Would this be right?

Withaferin A, a compound present in the Ashwagandha herb, was shown to reduce tumor size in different cancers on mice, as well as preventing metastasis. Research of this compound has gained momentum in recent years, and there are now dozens of studies on its anti-cancer properties. It seems to...

While @BillTre wrote about how scientists are trying to use the adenovirus in treating retinoblastoma, another team has published that the macrophages in the immune system can themselves engulf cancerous cells. Macrophages have the power to engulf and destroy cancerous cells, but tumour cells...

Hello, I don't have a background in medical research, but I was interested in understanding the conclusions of this paper: Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians I'm not understanding a few...

Using the keywords "nutrition" and "cancer", the Internet spews out thousands of articles. Ignoring the supermarket-checkout-magazine type of article, the others tend to either (a) be debunking various myths or (b) advising to avoid carcinogenic substances or (c) recommending to have a healthy...

How is PCR able to detect chromosomal translocations causing cancer? I understand it is possible through FISH but how PCR?

This thread is about cancer risk and organic food consumption - reporting on it mostly. USA today: (drive by journalism?) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/23/eating-organic-food-may-prevent-cancer-french-study-suggests/1737791002/ Commentary from JAMA (a critique)...

I've done a good bit of online research and have concluded that both in the past and AFAIK currently there is a significant risk of cancer if I work for companies that make military or civilian radar systems. I'm looking at high powered systems for missle detection, defense radar of all types...

Hi again and as always, I appreciate the responses. I had read a article on food babes website on fast food burger places and beef where the regular/conventional beef could give you cancer and she gives a source supposedly from oxford university and I eat regular beef now so that makes me very...

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/dont-fear-https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/dont-fear-crispr-new-gene-editing-technologies-wont-lead-designer-babies/-new-gene-editing-technologies-wont-lead-designer-babies/provides scientists with an easy way to introduce targeted genetic changes to...

lymphocytes from her tumor were taken out. Those reacting to her tumor were multiplied an injected back into her. She has been cancer free for two years. Science News article here.

I have a question regarding the development of cancer. Cancer can be a genetical mutation inside a cell that can have an external/environmental cause, such as UV light, oncogenes in food sources, or with the help of oncoviruses and carcinogenic bacteria. Other than that, cancer is also said to...

Hello everyone, I found this article that explains how some sorts of radiation treatments could be controlled with positron-emission tomography (PET). A team of researchers, led by Professor Samuel Achilefu from the Washington University School of Medicine’s departments of radiology and...

Just out in the British Medical journal. http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322 or permalink doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k322 And here is a link to the NOVA classification of "Ultra-processed" food...

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/01/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice.html Some quotes from the report. Activating T cells in tumors eliminated even distant metastases in mice, Stanford researchers found. Lymphoma patients are being recruited to test the technique in a clinical...

It is known that a high amount of bacterial DNA is often present near cancer cells. There are about 7000 pieces of bacterial DNA in healthy cells, but researchers found 691,000 inserted pieces of bacterial DNA in cancer cells. That’s almost 200 times as much, which implies that there is a...

Hi, I’m currently at college for my B.S. in physics and I’m working toward my minor in bio. My original goal was to go for a B.S. in physics and then through the program offered by my school, get a M.S. in engineering. However, I had a change in heart beginning of last semester and dropped the...

I come from totally engineering background but I'm passionate learner in my free time! I would like to start learning from the fundamentals about cancer and see if I can get some insights using my (engineering) background, as I'm progressing more and more in my learning career. Just give me your...

Are there any Epidemiologists here who can determine if the lung cancer rates in Friday Harbor, WA. (San Juan island) as a result of radon gas exposure are way above average ? I have searched and contacted WA.Dept of Health and got little information. Other searches bring up the commercial...

http://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2017.72.7735?journalCode=jco For male aged 50-70 smokers taking vitamin B pills with megadose levels, rates of lung cancer increased by a factor of 30% - 40%. Females did not show the same response. "Single" vitamin B pills: ex: Vitamin B12 only...

I've been pondering over whether it is possible to cause cancerous cells to self-destruct by increasing the metabolic rate of an organism via mitochondrial uncoupling of various agents, such as DNP (Dinitrophenolate). The rationale is that cancerous cells require much more energy than other...

Almost everyone I've known has had someone close to them have cancer in some form or another. When I was doing some reading on the matter I encountered a statistic saying that one in two Americans will have any form of cancer. I really have a hard time understanding why so many people are...

Everyone knows that cancer is caused by the failure of homeostasis. So, the way to cure cancer would be to fix the failure. So, how could we do that? Homeostasis is your ability to regularly stimulate extracting bodily fluids (sweating) and keeping your body temperature the same. If maybe your...

1. Hey, I need some urgent help regarding an assignment. We are given 8 processes: Extravasation, Intravasation, Invasion, Angiogenesis, Differentiation, Migration, Transformation, Circulation and we are meant to talk about them. However, I am unsure at the order that these processes occur. We...

New article, abstract: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1330 abstract:

present time we just knew that US Government legalized the use of marijuana cigarettes. Is there any proven that marijuana can heal parkinson disease and also can heal cancer.

Lymphoma is a cancer due to malignancy of lymphocytes. Leukemia is a cancer due to malignancy of leukocytes usually beginning in the bone marrow ( that includes lymphocytes too). The thing I don't understand is what is the starting point of these two types of cancer (difference in their...

One reads of cancer ever more these days, it seems like one can get cancer of anything, surly there must be a different switch to switch on breast cancer or prostate cancer.

Which are the most frequently used PDEs in cancer modelling? Are navier-stokes' equations and fluidodynamics equations used there?