Cure for Cancer?

The latest ramblings:

Amazing things have been happening the past few weeks and I have missed the opportunity to write on almost all of them. Here’s to making up for lost time.


A cure for cancer? As amazing as the sounded when I first read it a week ago, it looks like there is now going to be in our lifetime a cure for cancer. It seems biologists have found five molecules that will activate a self destruct mechanism in cancer cells. Now to get this right, cancer itself is the over growth of body cells. Cancer cells do not die as programmed and instead continue to grow in excess of the bodies needs. The cells apparently contain the necessary mechanisms to self destruct but are never triggered by the body to do so. Biologists, more specifically molecular biologists, have found a way to activate this self destruct mechanism artificially. They have done so with human cancers in laboratory mice and believe they can do the same in humans. Boys and girls, this is amazing. The world has changed and we all might have just missed it. The ramifications are mind-boggling. At first I was skeptical, thinking of previous instances where researchers had cooked the books to create unrealistic results, but this time I think it’s different. Only time will tell. Just think, at some point you may be diagnosed with cancer and prescribed a pill that you might take for up to two or three months and then you’re cured. The medication depends on the cancer and apparently needs to be tailored to the specific patient and cancer. Some cancers may need a smaller dosage of the the upcoming a medication while others may need larger. Initial results look promising.

Let’s all keep our fingers crossed and consider some reflective prayer, personally I can’t wait to see what comes of it all.



-Rob “live long and prosper” D.