pink
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This teared me up, i hope it makes you think as well.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html
i cant' even imagine
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Cathleen
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Beautiful, thank you. 
I'm smiling as I picture a playroom in my sister's home - it has handprints, houses, flowers and lots of other things, some that aren't truly recognizable and all are in bright colors and you can even see the finger prints of the artists. He's so right, but not just kids should paint their rooms anyway they want - I just need to remember that.
I'm smiling as I picture a playroom in my sister's home - it has handprints, houses, flowers and lots of other things, some that aren't truly recognizable and all are in bright colors and you can even see the finger prints of the artists. He's so right, but not just kids should paint their rooms anyway they want - I just need to remember that.
Cheyenne
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My dad died from pancreatic cancer, 5 months after he was diagnosed.pink_ said:
The advantage of knowing you're going to die is that you have a chance to say goodbye to people. And people have a chance to say everything they need to say to you before you go (if they are smart.)
The disadvantage is that you KNOW you're going to die, and in the end, you pray for it to be sooner rather than later. I wouldn't wish cancer of the pancreas, or any other organ, on my worst enemy.
pink
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my dad fought cancer for years, damn the man was a fighter. Ya'll would have liked him. He was not a learned man, he never graduated high school but he was honest, hard working and he loved his friends and maybe, most of all he loved sports. LOL
Cancer finally got him but not after he lived a damn long time. That poor man doesnt' have that time. It fucking sucks.
Cancer finally got him but not after he lived a damn long time. That poor man doesnt' have that time. It fucking sucks.
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JustSkye
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You're speaking to someone who never, ever has anything nice to say. Why bother?Cheyenne said:
If anyone is so inclined, look at his page. He's an amazing guy.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Cathleen
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Marshalt, I think you need to educate yourself on the matter or perhaps use common sense -- scientists love what they do, they have a passion for research. Do you honestly think they sit on their butts because they don't care?
The drug companies will never go out of business.
/highjack, pardon me Pink.
The drug companies will never go out of business.
/highjack, pardon me Pink.
Cathleen
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Get smart Marshalt
Public release date: 19-Sep-2007
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Contact: Lixin Zhu
wjg@wjgnet.com
86-108-538-1892
World Journal of Gastroenterology
Targeting nerve growth factor may cure liver cancer
Nerve growth factor (NGF), as the name says, is an essential peptide factor for the growth and differentiation of neuronal cells. Therefore we can imagine that this growth factor is important for the nervous system including brain. But a recent scientific report published in the October 7 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology tells us another surprising and exciting discovery about this growth factor: NGF is positively related with liver cancer, the No.2 killer among all kinds of cancers in the world.
This research was collaboration among scientists from National Research Council of Italy, Marino Hospital in Rome, Regina Elena Cancer Institute in Rome, and University of Rome. This fruitful collaboration was under the leadership of Dr Annalucia Serafino, a talented biologist who has made her well-recognized reputation in cancer research and hepatitis C virus research. She is holding a senior researcher position in the national research council in Rome, which plays a similar role as the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
With many beautiful pictures of immunohistology, these scientists showed that NGF and its receptor trkANGF were expressed in the liver of the patients troubled with liver cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) while these two molecules are not detected in the liver of healthy people. For a growth factor to affect a cell, there should be its specific receptor expressed on the surface of the target cell. Since both NGF and its specific receptor are abnormally expressed in the liver of patients, NGF seems to be expressed by liver cells to affect themselves (so called autocrine) or to affect adjacent cells (so called paracrine) in patients with liver cirrhosis and/or HCC.
These important discoveries indicate that NGF is playing a critical role in the development of liver cirrhosis and its progression towards HCC. Based on this discovery, targeting the NGF or its specific receptor trkANGF in diseased liver may suppress or prevent the development of liver cirrhosis and HCC. In the near future, bioengineers may be able to design a medicine directed to liver to inactivating NGF or its receptor.
The discovery reported in this article also opens up the possibility to use NGF in the early diagnosis of liver cirrhosis and HCC because of the high and specific expression of this growth factor in the liver progressing into liver cirrhosis and/or HCC.
Click link for additional information
src
/end hijack truly
Public release date: 19-Sep-2007
[ Print Article | E-mail Article | Close Window ]
Contact: Lixin Zhu
wjg@wjgnet.com
86-108-538-1892
World Journal of Gastroenterology
Targeting nerve growth factor may cure liver cancer
Nerve growth factor (NGF), as the name says, is an essential peptide factor for the growth and differentiation of neuronal cells. Therefore we can imagine that this growth factor is important for the nervous system including brain. But a recent scientific report published in the October 7 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology tells us another surprising and exciting discovery about this growth factor: NGF is positively related with liver cancer, the No.2 killer among all kinds of cancers in the world.
This research was collaboration among scientists from National Research Council of Italy, Marino Hospital in Rome, Regina Elena Cancer Institute in Rome, and University of Rome. This fruitful collaboration was under the leadership of Dr Annalucia Serafino, a talented biologist who has made her well-recognized reputation in cancer research and hepatitis C virus research. She is holding a senior researcher position in the national research council in Rome, which plays a similar role as the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
With many beautiful pictures of immunohistology, these scientists showed that NGF and its receptor trkANGF were expressed in the liver of the patients troubled with liver cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) while these two molecules are not detected in the liver of healthy people. For a growth factor to affect a cell, there should be its specific receptor expressed on the surface of the target cell. Since both NGF and its specific receptor are abnormally expressed in the liver of patients, NGF seems to be expressed by liver cells to affect themselves (so called autocrine) or to affect adjacent cells (so called paracrine) in patients with liver cirrhosis and/or HCC.
These important discoveries indicate that NGF is playing a critical role in the development of liver cirrhosis and its progression towards HCC. Based on this discovery, targeting the NGF or its specific receptor trkANGF in diseased liver may suppress or prevent the development of liver cirrhosis and HCC. In the near future, bioengineers may be able to design a medicine directed to liver to inactivating NGF or its receptor.
The discovery reported in this article also opens up the possibility to use NGF in the early diagnosis of liver cirrhosis and HCC because of the high and specific expression of this growth factor in the liver progressing into liver cirrhosis and/or HCC.
Click link for additional information
src
/end hijack truly
ItsMyTurn
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Fucking terrible. My mil died within six months of her diagnosis. I think it is one of the worst cancers to have to deal with for patients & families. Usually they only has a few months, chemo may slow it down but by the time they find it, it's just too damn late.
beachgurl3
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back to the linked article about his speech.
I especially liked this part:
Flashing his rejection letters on the screen, he talked about setbacks in his career, repeating: "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things."
I especially liked this part:
Flashing his rejection letters on the screen, he talked about setbacks in his career, repeating: "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things."
johnnycornbeef
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pink_ said:
Faking his own death... nice move. There's a lot of pussy in that.
