A Trumpian Proposal to Conquer Cancer
American Thinker,
by
Jeff Lipkes
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
2/25/2020 3:03:23 PM
On March 12, 1938, Germany invaded Austria. Recognizing that war with the Third Reich was now probable and anticipating bombing raids on London, Admiral Hugh Sinclair, head of the Government Code and Cipher School (GCCS), set out to find property outside the city where the agency could relocate. Unable to get funding from the government, Sinclair purchased with his own money Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. This would be the site of the most spectacular cryptographic breakthroughs in history, made possible in part by the engineering of the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer.
Please, God, hear our prayer. I lost my father to pancreatic cancer and I add my prayer to yours.
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Maggie2u 2/25/2020 4:11:26 PM (No. 329510)
Yesterday my sister-in-law had her first chemo for pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed right before Christmas after not feeling well for a couple of months and numerous tests to find out what was wrong. She is having her treatment at Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle, one of the premier hospitals in the world for treating pancreatic cancer. She has never smoked, taken drugs, is not an ounce overweight. Has been active all her life, playing soccer until just a few years ago. Her outlook was not so good according to her original doctor but my brother says she is taking some experimental treatments that have shown promise.
OP, there is a new drug, just approved by the FDA in January, that has shown promise for lengthening the survival rate of victims of pancreatic cancer. It's called Lynparza, it is a drug used to treat ovarian cancer but has shown to give patients with pancreatic cancer twice the ordinary survival rate.
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qr4j 2/25/2020 4:24:10 PM (No. 329518)
This is a great read. What Poster No. 1 says! I lost my mother to colon cancer that was brought on by breast cancer. She battled the disease off and on for 16 years.
In one of her surgeries, back in 2016, she had to be fitted with a urostomy and a colostomy. She wore two pouches for two years until her death in 2018. Mom attended a support group for people with ostomies. At her suggestion, the group was named the "Marsupial Club" because members had pouches like kangaroos and the like. It was a way to add humor (Marsupial) and a positive feeling to the support community ("Club" reminds one of a hobby like golf or knitting or card-playing).
Please, God, hear our prayer.
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DVC 2/25/2020 5:21:26 PM (No. 329570)
I lost a good friend and flying buddy of 35 years to a rare slow-growing form of pancreatic cancer a few years back. This is a really great need.
We spent and entire day visiting Bletchely Park last fall, and it was a great revelation, especially for someone who spent a career in engineering computing, using the high performance computers to solve large, complex engineering problems. Seeing how the Bletchley Park team cross pollinated, and how engineers and physicists worked with mathematicians, each coming to the problem with different skills, different views of the problem, was quite interesting.
Being friends with a cellular biologist research prof since we were freshmen in college, he has taught me the rudiments of cellular biology, enough to understand what the author is driving at in some of his comments on the medical side. It's a huge problem, but now with massively more computational capability, we can find solutions or patterns by just what is called 'brute force' methods, looking at all combinations and see what works. Like picking a combination lock by trying all the possible combinations very quickly. That is what the Bletchley Park "Bomb" units did each day, tried all possible rotor combinations until an intelligible phrase 'fell out'. Then, they had the code for that 24 hr period, but needed to find the new rotor settings again the next day. For some problems, quickly checking all possible combinations is the only way. It may be so for figuring out what some of these cancer mutations do, too.
I hope that this can be funded. It would be a wonderful thing, and like.
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DVC 2/25/2020 6:21:16 PM (No. 329634)
Sorry, I have no idea where the "and like" came from.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HotRod 2/25/2020 6:31:42 PM (No. 329640)
A lot of progress is being made in the fight against various cancers, but it takes a LOT of research, experimentation, and testing. It costs a LOT of money. The money spent on free abortions, illegal immigrants, and government corruption would go a long ways in accelerating cures. Unfortunately, many of our politicians prefer to get rich while in office, so a lot of graft and cronyism rules.
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Last year, my younger brother was diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer, caught early only because he was having stomach problems from a different issue. He has been going through extensive chemotherapy and his cancer indicators are now falling steadily, with his doctors hoping to remove the tumor altogether very soon. It has been touch and go, but his doctors tell him he is winning his fight (please God!). He is the third of my four siblings to have a cancer diagnosis. This cancer research would not only benefit cancer patients, but also their anxious families waiting in hope that they will survive this evil disease!