Guest guest Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Cancer: The Hopes For A Cure Are Temporarily Dashed, But An Alternative Is Discovered By Bill Sardi A prior report, co-authored by Timothy Hubbell and Bill Sardi, posted at Knowledge of Health ( http://www.knowledgeofhealth.com/blog/kohblog.html ) and on the Lew Rockwell website (http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi84.html ), aired a heartbreaking problem for cancer patients and their families. There appears to be a fool-proof cure for cancer unfolding, based upon human trials with long-term survival and no side effects. Furthermore, the lead researcher and cancer-cure patent holder, Nobuto Yamamoto of the Socrates Institute for Therapeutic Immunology in Philadelphia, claims that more research studies are about to be published that will further confirm earlier trials. In addition to two recently published studies showing 16 of 16 breast cancer patients and 8 of 8 colon cancer patients experienced complete long-term remissions, lasting 4 to 7 years (Dr. Yamamoto says 7-15 years to be more accurate), (1, 2) from otherwise life-threatening tumors, Dr. Yamamoto indicates in an email communication that upcoming reports on his immunotherapy for prostate cancer will be published in the June issue of Translational Oncology and another report on lung cancer is in preparation. But, sadly, the treatment is not available yet. Desperate cancer patients and their loved ones are dismayed. Dr. Yamamoto indicates there are current plans " with a pharmaceutical company to establish clinical trial systems some medical centers. " To the anguish of cancer patients, just when and where these trials will begin goes undisclosed. Intrigue surrounds this discovery. The immunotherapy treatment involves activating white blood cells known as macrophages which literally seek out and digest tumor cells. An enzyme excreted from tumor cells, Nagalase, disarms the macrophages. A naturally produced molecule, Gc protein, is converted into GcMAF (macrophage activating factor) under normal conditions, such as when fighting bacterial infections, to activate macrophages to kill cancer cells. Nagalase blocks this conversion. While GcMAF treatment was performed without side effect and with complete effect for years, Dr. Yamamoto is tinkering with the molecule in an effort he says will make it more effective in penetrating remote brain tumors. The GcMAF molecule is not patentable, but its method of production is patented by Dr. Yamamoto (U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,177,001 and 5,177,002, awarded 1993) But why is Dr. Yamamoto altering the GcMAF molecule when it appeared to work perfectly in prior human trials? Dr. Yamamoto's newly patented (2006) cancer fighting molecule is called CdMAF, which stands for cloned GcMAF derivative, which he says is more stable than, and less immunogenic (allergy provoking), than another version of CdMAF he has tested. He says " CdMAF is smaller than 18% of GcMAF, it can rapdly penetrate various membranes/barriers. Thus it has the most effective to various cancers including brain cancers. " But the GcMAF therapy was completely effective, so how Dr. Yamamoto substantiates the need to improve upon his earlier work, and that GcMAF when naturally produced in the body works fine, goes unexplained. The cancer clock is ticking. An estimated 7.6 million people die of cancer annually (21,000 per hour, more than 850 per minute). Dr. Yamamoto, through his patents, holds the keys to what appears to be a bona fide cancer cure. Determining Dr. Yamamoto's time table is a challenge. Cancer patients have no time to be patient. They inquire if there are alternatives. The scientific hint of such an alternative comes in a report published in Science Daily on May 20, 2008. The report identifies a protein called IKK(beta) which blocks the activity of a protein that normally stimulates protective inflammation, but in the context of existing tumors, it also blocks the activity of a protein that turns on anti-tumor genes, genes that influence the activation of macrophages. When scientists inactivated IKK(beta) in macrophages from mouse tumors, the macrophages went back on the attack. [Retraining immune cells to kill tumors, Science Daily, May 20, 2008] This means there is another molecular pathway to the cancer-kill switch outside of Dr. Nobuto's invention. The molecular pathway to turn the cancer-kill switch back on is described in the May 19, 2008 online edition of The Journal of Experimental Medicine, entitled " Retraining macrophages to kill tumors. " Here is how the Journal of Experimental Medicine explained this discovery: Published online May 19, 2008 The Journal of Experimental Medicine, by Hema Bashyam Retraining macrophages to kill tumors Ovarian tumors (blue) are destroyed in mice injected with macrophages in which IKK & #946; signals are inhibited (bottom). Some tumors avoid getting killed by turning macrophages into immune-suppressive cells. Hagemann et al. now find that these impotent cells can be reverted into weapons of tumor destruction by simply suppressing a kinase (enzyme). Macrophages can destroy tumor cells by producing inflammatory molecules. But macrophages within tumors often secrete harmless antiinflammatory cytokines and proteins that promote tumor growth. Tumor cells induce this transformation, but the signals that drive the conversion were unknown. Hagemann et al. now find that tumor macrophages in mice are disarmed by signals that activate NFKappaB (NF- & #954;B)—a transcription factor that normally drives inflammation. As in inflammation, tumor macrophage NF- & #954;B was turned on by I & #954;B kinase (IKK) & #946;. In tumors, however, IKK & #946; also suppressed STAT1—a transcription factor that turns on tumor-fighting genes. The basis for this difference is unclear. Perhaps the tumor contains unique cues that instruct the IKK pathway to shut off STAT1. STAT1 suppression in macrophages depended solely on the cytokine receptor IL-1R and its downstream adaptor, MyD88, suggesting that tumors might protect themselves by secreting the IL-1R ligand, IL-1 & #946;. Macrophages from tumors or from healthy animals became in vivo tumor killers when engineered to express dominant-negative IKK & #946;. These reprogrammed macrophages produced high levels of IL-12, which recruited tumor-fighting NK cells. The group is now investigating whether infusing similarly reprogramed macrophages into cancer patients will help reverse tumor growth. Blockage or IKK(beta) activates a different type of macrophage cell, not the classically activated M1 macrophage produced during infection, which appears to prevent " the over-exuberant activation of macrophages during infection. " In a companion report published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, researchers report that the NFKappaB pathway critically controls inflammation and immunity, and that this pathway is controlled by IKK(beta). While inhibition of IKK(beta) has the predicted effect of inhibiting inflammation and reducing innate immunity (immunity produced largely by another white blood cell called neutrophils), the inhibition or deletion of IKK(beta) produced an unexpected discovery – greater resistance to infection by activation of macrophages. (3) Our search for an alternative to GcMAF treatment leads us to locate a mechanism to inhibit NF-kappaB and IKK(beta). Natural molecules exist that do this. Nature has an array of NF-KappaB inhibitors, which includes molecules available as dietary supplements, such as resveratrol, quercetin, EGCG from green tea. (4) Quercetin (kwer-see-tin), known as a red onion molecule, and resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl), known as a red wine molecule, are the most studied NF-KappaB inhibitors Researchers at Seoul National University conducted an experiment where they employed a chemical (TPA) to induce inflammation in the skin of mice, which in turn activated NF-kappaB, COX-2 and IKK, molecules that excite inflammation, a reaction that was " abolished " by resveratrol, known as a red wine molecule. Researchers concluded that " these findings suggest that resveratrol targets IKK in blocking chemically-induced NF-kappaB activation and COX-2 expression in mouse skin in vivo. " (5) Other studies confirm that resveratrol inhibits activation of the molecule NF-kappaB. (6,7,8,9) Researchers at the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, have carefully documented the effect of quercetin in an animal study. Chemically-induced diabetes and concomitant activation of IKK and NF-KappaB was " abolished " by quercetin. (10) Not only are polyphenols found in red wine, grapes, berries, onions and tea NF-KappaB inhibitors, but also a whole grain bran factor known as IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate). (11) Polyphenols like quercetin and resveratrol are also potent enzyme inhibitors and would likely inhibit Nagalase, the enzyme that deactivates cancer-cell killing macrophages. Polyphenols favorably inhibit enzymes such as COX-2 (inflammation), lipase (fat absorption), cytochrome p450 liver enzymes (detoxification), metalloproteinase (collagen breakdown), telomerase (enzyme that breaks down the end caps of chromosomes), 5alpha-reductases (hair loss), estrogen sulfotransferase (enzyme that produces free unbound estrogen), neuraminidase (influenza viral infection), and likely will be found to inhibit Nagalase, the enzyme that deactivates cancer-cell killing macrophages. This natural alternative is unproven, but not disproven. According to the best available evidence, it is a non-harmful, economical approach to cancer therapy. Given the slow pace of introducing new cancer therapies like GcMAF, the use of polyphenolic cancer therapy would appear to be prudent. Polyphenols are of concern to oncologists because pharmacologists concede that they exhibit the " same metabolic pathways with many therapeutic drugs " and even make existing drugs work better, but exist outside the control of drug regulators because they are natural molecules. (12) Copyright 2008 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc. Bill Sardi has a commercial interest in the marketing of polyphenolic molecules. References 1. Yamamoto N, Suyama H, Yamamoto N, Ushijima N. Immunotherapy of metastatic breast cancer patients with vitamin D-binding protein-derived macrophage activating factor (GcMAF). International Journal Cancer 2008 Jan 15; 122(2):461-7. 2. Yamamoto N, Suyama H, Nakazato H, Yamamoto N, Koga Y, Immunotherapy of metastatic colorectal cancer with vitamin D-binding protein-derived macrophage-activating factor, GcMAF. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy 2007 Dec 6. 3. 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Guest guest Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 At first glance that would sound extremely encouraging, even though so far it has not been found that effective in all cancers. Then you look at the sad fact that it is nowhere near the point of being available and may never be. The question of why anyone would want to alter something that is already so effective is obvious and I am surprised that such knowledgeable people would even ask it: If a substance is not patentable, it cannot be exclusively controlled and sold by a major pharmaceutical who can afford the almost billion dollars it takes to get a product through trials and to the market. The question of patentability is no doubt a big reason that no major pharmaceutical company has not immediately jumped on the bandwagon. In all likelihood, the high success rate is actually an even stronger reason. Cancer is an almost $400 billion dollar industry whose continued profits depends on NOT finding a cure and continuing with treatment which, like 95% of approved medications, have side effects that often lead to other conditions which will require more and more medications. Hopefully, more information will be forthcoming so that a home remedy version, much like oleander soup can be devised, because I seriously doubt that we will ever see it make it to market with the reported success rate and lack of side effects. oleander soup , " mds9513 " <mds9513 wrote: > > Cancer: The Hopes For A Cure Are Temporarily Dashed, But An > Alternative Is Discovered > > > > By Bill Sardi > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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