The Cancer Research Industry

June 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Many volunteers around the world undertake to raise funds for cancer research and charities against cancer. Hundreds of thousands of other jobs in the industry as carers, or research, prescribing, diagnosing and manufacturing drugs. Huge companies spend fortunes on cancer research. Billion after so long and what exactly has happened cancer research has revealed?

There has been steady progress in our understanding of cancer, but few advances in treatment. Modern research on cancer began in the 1940's and 50's, when scientists isolated substances that killed cancer cells growing in a petri dish, or leukemia cells in laboratory mice. The initial success of chemotherapy and the pace has received much publicity in the media, even if only applied to 5% of cancer treatments at most.

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Serving humanity by solving its major diseases has a celebrity status, there are a lot of congratulations and an air of Hollywood involved in such things. Cancer Research is a high activity level and occasionally a scientific treatment is discovered that gains wide recognition, such as HPV-16 attempts, but it applies only to treat themselves to small percentage cancers. Mass-media hype is part of the problem of how we see cancer. First discoveries to create an expectation that there was a cure all treatment, a "magic bullet" that would make its discoverer famous by the treatment of cancer worldwide. The idea comes partly from aspirin, the original ball that magically finds their way to pain and reduced.

In the 1950's and 60's huge and expensive research project to test every known substance, which is carried out in cancer cells. You may recall was discovered in Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharansus roseus), which revealed alkaloids (vinblastine and vincristine), which are still used in chemotherapy. Taxol, ovarian and breast cancer originates in the Pacific yew tree. The treatment for testicular cancer and small cell lung cancer called Etoposide 'was derived from the May apple. In "Plants used Against Cancer 'by Jonathan Hartwell over 3,000 plants identified by medical sources and folklore to treat cancer, of which about half were found to have any effect on cancer cells in test tubes.

When these plants are designer drugs, are chemicals only in isolation and the rest of the plant is usually discarded. The medically active compounds extracted from plants and modified until they are chemically unique. Then, the compound is patented, where a brand name and tested.

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