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Stories like this one always give me hope. Especially when it comes to something like pancreatic cancer, which usually doesn’t have a great prognosis. Except last year my Uncle Joe was given a pancreatic cancer diagnosis - the doctor was SURE about what he saw. Soon after they found out the docs were wrong. For a while there, he and his family thought his days here were numbered, can you imagine how ecstatic they were to get the good news? Some call it a doctor error…I call it proof that God still works miracles. I’m still thanking Him for that one.
Here’s the Newsmax story: red wine antioxidant kills pancreatic cancer cells
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This sounds extremely preliminary, not something that will be a treatment protocol any time soon. Promising, perhaps, but there’s a lot more work to do.
No mention was made whether the experiments were in vitro or in vivo (likely it was in vitro – out side the body), nor did it even mention if human pancreatic cells were used. They could have been from mice, rats, etc. In vitro experiments are always preliminary; there is a lot of other things going on in the body which complicates things quite a bit.
Glad to see apoptosis mentioned though. That’s my husband’s area of research – understanding apoptosis mechanisms at the most fundamental level.
Hi Anna,
Does your husband research apoptosis related to cancer therapies?
Hi Kelly,
No, though the results of his research is often applicable to cancer and neuro-degenerative diseases and later, therapies for them. In other words, his research is “basic” – that is, understanding how the cell death mechanism works or doesn’t work.
It’s sort of like he works on one motor piece of a “mystery machine”. Other researchers combine what is learned by many researchers about the other parts of the “mystery machine”, eventually knowing enough about a disease to begin researching therapies. Those folks would be “clinical” researchers.
I’m planning a post on this topic soon, because “basic” research funding (primarily from NIH) is at a critical lowpoint. I won’t get too political here, but there is a lot of talk in “basic” science that the development “pipeline” of research trainees is “broken” due to the tight funding, so that there may be a critical shortage of brain power for basic research in the future. That has strong implications for disease research and eventually, therapies.
Anna,
You have a gift for explaining complex information in an easy-to-understand way!
Be sure to come back here with a link in the comments when you get that post done.
Kelly
Thanks, Kelly. My post is up now, titled Penny-wise, Progress-Foolish. You can get to by clicking my name.
Hmm, sorry, that didn’t quite work right. http://www.againstthegrainblog.com