Deadly Deviousness of the Cancer Cell, or How DCA Might Fail

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	Deadly Deviousness of the Cancer Cell, or How DCA Might Fail

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3-6-2007 11:53 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/269c9d4d-8b75-423e-8d63-0172e8b0ae64/8385B5D8-C254-4EC5-990D-667C7D2E68FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/03/the_deadly_deviousness_of_the_cancer_cell.php" href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/03/the_deadly_deviousness_of_the_cancer_cell.php" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/03/the_deadly_deviousness_of_the_cancer_cell.php">What these results suggest is something that those of us studying cancer have known for a long time. Cancer is an unbelievably devious and resourceful foe; if it weren't we'd be far better at curing it now than we are. As much as we would like to wish it to be so, there will almost certainly never be a "magic bullet" that will cure all cancers. Antiangiogenic therapy was touted as one eight years ago and, in the time since then, has shown only modest success against cancer. Certainly it was no magic bullet. My guess is that DCA (and drugs designed to target the Warburg Effect) will similarly show modest success against cancer in humans. My guess (and remember, it is just an educated guess) is that it may well be ineffective against many forms of brain metastases and against some forms of brain tumors, while being most effective against tumors that are most avid in taking up glucose, which happen to be the tumors that show up the most brightly on <A href="http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=pet&bhcp=1">PET scans</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8385B5D8-C254-4EC5-990D-667C7D2E68FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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