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Doctors have successfully cured rectal cancer in patients thanks to an experimental drug trial.

Oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York found that the latest tests of patients showed no evidence of cancer.

The treatment uses immunotherapy which harnesses the body’s own immune system as an ally against cancer.

Sascha Roth, the first patient in the clinical trial involving immunotherapy had undergone six months of treatment.

For the first time, the MSK clinical trial was investigating if immunotherapy alone could beat rectal cancer that had not spread to other tissues, in a subset of patients whose tumour contained a specific genetic mutation.

As the first patient to enroll in the trial, the research team was anxious that Roth’s experience might prove to be an outlier but the same remarkable result was repeated in all 14 people in the trial.

In every case, the rectal cancer disappeared after immunotherapy — without the need for the standard treatments of radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy — and cancer has not returned in any of the patients, who have been cancer-free for up to two years.

‘It’s incredibly rewarding to get these happy tears and happy emails from the patients in this study who finish treatment and realize, “Oh my God, I get to keep all my normal body functions that I feared I might lose to radiation or surgery,”‘ said Dr. Andrea Cercek, a medical oncologist working on the trial.

The patients in the study had tumours with a specific genetic makeup known as mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd) or microsatellite instability (MSI).

There are 45,000 Americans diagnosed a year with rectal cancer. Between 5% and 10% of all rectal cancer patients are thought to have MMRd tumours.

‘Immunotherapy has proven successful in treating a subset of patients with colon and rectal cancer that has metastasized, meaning spread to other tissues,’ explained Dr Luis Diaz, Jr., a co-investigator on the trial.

The clinical trial also focused on avoiding the toxicity often associated with treatment for rectal cancer as the standard treatment for rectal cancer with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy can be particularly hard on people because of the location of the tumour.

‘They can suffer life-altering bowel and bladder dysfunction, incontinence, infertility, s*xual dysfunction, and more,’ said Dr Diaz.

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I heard that once. I wonder if there might be some truth about this...something to think about.

Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others.

Many of the words to describe mental health issues are inaccurate and frequently confused with other terms.

This blog going to be very
long seriel one.. ....



npd...
Personality disorder, as per its actual name.

Computers have learned how to beat any human at Chess; why couldn’t a clever narc learn how to better condition him/herself?

NPD is a *character disorder* so right out of the starting gate, they have a disability. To me a cure means it's gone. No longer a problem. If one has to constantly monitor one's reactions, it's still a problem, and there's still potential to do harm. A cure would mean that potential is gone.


A person who has NPD, but then intellectually responds to an understanding of how their behavior hurts people and then for the rest of their lives, quits that hurtful behavior, can be called “cured.”

medical world...
They don't believe NPD responds to treatment, let alone can be cured.

Got 48 minutes? I suggest you watch this very moving video about twins Ladan and Laleh Bijanic conjoined at the head, who went through a pioneering surgical separation.




"Will you stay with me after separation?"
"I'll get rid of you and escape... No, I'm kidding. I'll be with you where ever you go."

A must see!!!

Do you folk think that we have a mental 'health' epidemic here on the blog lately?

I kinda have a feeling that that's prolly the case, actually. Don't know if you've sensed it. I did.

Watch out.

If heart is a blood pumping organ only, then why it is used in the context of emotions-feelings?

Maybe because the effect of every emotions-feelings is first seen on the heart, after then appeared in other organs.

Clinical trials have begun on the virus Vaxinia that is said to kill cancer.
According to a Yahoo story:
"The virus itself has been engineered specifically to kill cancer cells. And, in previous animal trials, scientists have seen very promising results. These kinds of viruses have been a “smoking gun” in the fight against cancer for over a century."

This could be a future topic of discussion should test prove positive.



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If you think 5G towers are harmful, all you need to do is see a
PSYCHIATRIST

What happens if you get monkeypox?
Monkeypox symptoms and signs include headache, skin rash, fever, body aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes, and exhaustion. It produces symptoms similar to smallpox, but milder. The time from infection to the onset of symptoms, which is referred to as the incubation period, can range from five to 21 days.


Does monkeypox hurt?
In humans, the symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than the symptoms of smallpox. Monkeypox begins with fever, headache, muscle aches, and exhaustion.

How is monkeypox spread?
How does monkeypox spread? It spreads from one person to another through prolonged close contact (by inhaling the infected droplets), or direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated objects, such as bedding or clothes. It does not spread via casual contact.

How do monkeypox start?
How you get monkeypox. Monkeypox can be caught from infected wild animals in parts of west and central Africa. It's thought to be spread by rodents, such as rats, mice and squirrels. You can catch monkeypox from an infected animal if you're bitten or you touch its blood, body fluids, spots, blisters or scabs.