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::I’m not sure about this, but I think it might be because cancer cells could ::be in the organs. Not that this is proof in any way, but they recently had a ::Law and Order episode about it. Some info……. Donation by Cancer Survivors Many cancer survivors are keenly aware of the value of good health and want to help others by donating their blood or body organs. However, for the safety of blood or organ recipients, centers may restrict donations from people diagnosed or with a history of certain cancers. Blood Donation Some people who have had cancer are not allowed to donate blood. This is done partly to protect the donor, but it may also add an extra margin of safety for the person who receives the blood. While cancer has very rarely been transmitted through transplants of solid organs such as kidneys, cancer due to blood transfusion has not been reported in the medical literature. That would suggest that the possibility of getting cancer from a blood transfusion is extremely small. Even if cancer cells were present in donated blood, the immune system of the person receiving the blood would destroy the cells. A possible exception might be in transfusion recipients with weakened immune systems, who might not be able to fend off the cancer cells. Because of this slight possibility, in certain cases cancer survivors may not be allowed to donate blood for other people. Different blood collection centers may have slightly different standards for allowing cancer survivors to donate. For example, the American Red Cross guidelines allow people who have had cancer to donate if the cancer were treated with surgery or radiation at least 5 years ago and there has been no recurrence. Potential donors who have had only low-risk skin cancers that were removed or destroyed (and therefore have little risk of cancerous cells entering the bloodstream) may not have to wait that long. People who were treated for cancer with chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or immunotherapy cannot donate blood. Nor can anyone who has had leukemia or lymphoma. Other blood donation centers may have slightly different guidelines regarding donations by cancer survivors, such as requiring shorter times since cancer treatment was completed. Ultimately, it’s up to the doctor in charge of the donor center to decide whether a person is allowed to donate. If you have questions about whether you can donate, please contact the blood collecting center in your community. Some cancer survivors may find these precautions frustrating. They may be eager to donate blood to help others with cancer, just as they were helped by transfusions during their treatment. Everyone should remember, though, that the most important goal in blood banking is to ensure the safety of the blood supply and to protect transfusion recipients. Organ Donation Many cancer survivors also wish to help people by becoming organ donors. There is always a pressing need for organ donation. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the organization that facilitates every organ transplant in the US, more than 82,000 people are waiting for organs. Some organ donations, such as kidney donation, may be done when a person is still living, while others are possible only if a person wishing to donate passes away under certain circumstances. The risk of passing on cancer to an organ recipient is very small, but there have been rare reports in the medical literature of this happening. The risk is probably slightly higher than with blood transfusions because organ recipients are given drugs to suppress their immune systems, which helps prevent rejection of the transplant. According to a study by UNOS, reported in the journal Transplantation, under select circumstances there may be an acceptable risk in using organs from donors who have had certain types of cancer. This is particularly true if there is a long cancer-free interval prior to organ donation. Currently, UNOS does not recommend accepting organs from people with "actively spreading cancer (except for primary brain tumors that have not spread beyond the brain stem)." Acceptance of organs for donation is up to the individual organ procurement agency and the recipient. If you have questions about whether you may be able to donate your organs, please contact UNOS or the organ procurement center in your community. For many people, corneal donation is another way to offer help to others after they pass away. Almost all people with cancer (except those with certain blood or eye cancers) can donate their corneas. Corneal donation does not delay the funeral and the body is not disfigured. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_1_4x_Donation_by_Cancer…  .

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That’s great news!

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Brother is doing well, his bone scan is completely clear, Aunt had her surgery, they removed, 60 percent of her pancreas and think she is not going to be diabetic, and they think they got all the cancer.  Lee I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. Oh well, there are always more messages to get caught up on! in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee Sorry to hear about your brother and aunt.  You’re right, it doesn’t seem to lighten up for long.  You make a good point about being OP.  Something for all of us to think about since we all probably fall off program when something comes up.  I know I do.

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thanks, Lee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – That’s great news! Brother is doing well, his bone scan is completely clear, Aunt had her surgery, they removed, 60 percent of her pancreas and think she is not going to be diabetic, and they think they got all the cancer.  Lee I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. Oh well, there are always more messages to get caught up on! in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee Sorry to hear about your brother and aunt.  You’re right, it doesn’t seem to lighten up for long.  You make a good point about being OP.  Something for all of us to think about since we all probably fall off program when something comes up.  I know I do.

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I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why.

Oh well, there are always more messages to get caught up on! in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

Sorry to hear about your brother and aunt.  You’re right, it doesn’t seem to lighten up for long.  You make a good point about being OP.  Something for all of us to think about since we all probably fall off program when something comes up.  I know I do. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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Brother is doing well, his bone scan is completely clear, Aunt had her surgery, they removed, 60 percent of her pancreas and think she is not going to be diabetic, and they think they got all the cancer.  Lee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. Oh well, there are always more messages to get caught up on! in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee Sorry to hear about your brother and aunt.  You’re right, it doesn’t seem to lighten up for long.  You make a good point about being OP.  Something for all of us to think about since we all probably fall off program when something comes up.  I know I do.

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it has been stressful watching my parents suffer, they are wonderful people, again thanks for the support, Lee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – That’s excellent news about the bone scan.  Sometimes agressive procedures can cause more harm than good.  As I mentioned previously a scan two years ago showed something tiny under my arm but I have had twice annual scans since then and it has not increased in size.  It sounds like your brother has already gone through a lot and his doctor wants him to heal and continue to get stronger.  I imagine this has been very stressful for you too. I asked my mom and because of where they are positioned there is some issue that I didn’t understand, they are very small and the doctor wants to just watch them instead of doing a biopsy for now, from what I did understand it seems a very conservative way to deal with it.  I guess either way the good news is that his bone scan came back completely clear, Lee, not understanding it all Lumps too small to biopsy? Wrinkled forehead. I would advise a second opinion. They can biopsy a blackhead if they want to. — Lesanne I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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I asked my mom and because of where they are positioned there is some issue that I didn’t understand, they are very small and the doctor wants to just watch them instead of doing a biopsy for now, from what I did understand it seems a very conservative way to deal with it.  I guess either way the good news is that his bone scan came back completely clear, Lee, not understanding it all

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Lumps too small to biopsy? Wrinkled forehead. I would advise a second opinion. They can biopsy a blackhead if they want to. — Lesanne I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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The concern with my brother is that he just had a kidney removed that had 2 tumors in it, both cancer, he is also an extremely brittle diabetic so those concerns complicate everything, thanks, Lee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee Tiny lumps can stay tiny a very long time.  I’ve have some we are simply watching so live just goes on. Audrey

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Lumps too small to biopsy? Wrinkled forehead. I would advise a second opinion. They can biopsy a blackhead if they want to. — Lesanne

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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The doctors have given my aunt 2 weeks to decide about surgery, after that point all they will offer is palliative care, tough for her to decide, thanks for the support, Lee

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sorry about the bad news. But I guess you are right – there is always something and you can’t wait till it all stops – it won’t. Hope everything works out I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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That’s excellent news about the bone scan.  Sometimes agressive procedures can cause more harm than good.  As I mentioned previously a scan two years ago showed something tiny under my arm but I have had twice annual scans since then and it has not increased in size.  It sounds like your brother has already gone through a lot and his doctor wants him to heal and continue to get stronger.  I imagine this has been very stressful for you too.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I asked my mom and because of where they are positioned there is some issue that I didn’t understand, they are very small and the doctor wants to just watch them instead of doing a biopsy for now, from what I did understand it seems a very conservative way to deal with it.  I guess either way the good news is that his bone scan came back completely clear, Lee, not understanding it all Lumps too small to biopsy? Wrinkled forehead. I would advise a second opinion. They can biopsy a blackhead if they want to. — Lesanne I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I was doing so well with catching up but the computer ate most of the messages, and if I didn’t answer or comment as you thought I should that is the reason why. in better/worse news, the lumps under my brother’s arms are too small to biopsy, but my aunt is now suffering with pancreatic cancer, it never seems to lighten up for long, and I am wailing about all of this just to say, don’t put off being on program because there is always another crisis, or celebration, or stress, and the truth is time is too short to not be as healthy as possible so can have the full measure of enjoyment due you, Lee

Tiny lumps can stay tiny a very long time.  I’ve have some we are simply watching so live just goes on. Audrey

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All latex exposure accumulates together in the blood stream. How could you possibly determine the point of entry/ What a silly comment. Latex is latex is latex. Latex exposure is latex exposure. Internal ‘moist’ contact is by far the worst.

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All latex exposure accumulates together in the blood stream.

Remarkable statement! Any support for it? George M. Carter

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"Gloves are not condoms"

snip "Delayed cell-mediated reactions are the most common form of hypersensitivity reaction to natural rubber latex."

LOL. So for those few people who develop (has there EVER been a case??) an allergic reaction from using latex condoms, they could CONTINUE to use it and, like DNCB, be cured of HIV. Gosh. Where’s Frod Show?? Lubricant with nonoxynol-9 is a bad idea–actually, a lot of us were arguing that 10 years ago! So we do agree there. Many companies are making lube with out N9 but not enough yet. And there are plastic condoms. The risk of allergy or the allergic response from condom use is MUCH MUCH less than the risks associated with becoming HIV infected.                 George M. Carter

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"Gloves are not condoms" SO TRUE. Gloves are not used internally on a very delicate part of the body. Gloves are not subject to moist internal surfaces. Gloves are not rubbed for hour on end into the skin. Gloves don’t have toxic lubricants. Condoms present a far, far greater risk then gloves. FAR GREATER _______ "According to the A m e r i c a n Academy of A l l e rg y, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), the greatest danger of severe reactions occurs when latex comes in contact with moist areas of the body or internal surfaces." "…… new concerns are arising regarding allergic or other toxic reactions to various components of latex condoms such as vulcanization accelerators, latex proteins, spermicides and finishing powders." "* Studies are needed to evaluate the best lubricants to use in the manufacture of condoms. Evidence suggests that the right quantity, type and placement of lubricant is important for condom functionality, acceptability and safety. In addition, the added value and risk presented by spermicidal lubricants and by dry finishing powders (e.g. talc or cornstarch) should be critically examined." "Since the late 1980s the reported incidence of allergy to natural rubber latex has increased dramatically, as much as 12 -fold." "Latex allergy is incurable, although the symptoms, such as itching, soreness, painful blistering, runny noses, swollen eyes, asthma symptoms and anaphylaxis can be ameliorated. Everyone who has contact wi th natural rubber latex is potentially at risk from sensitisation. Both patients and health care workers can be at risk from allergic reactions to natural rubber latex. Over the past decade, allergic reactions to natural rubber latex have become a major public health concern." " Once a person has developed latex allergy, however mild, they are

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Thank you. You eased my mind as to why it could have been diagnosed as a benign tumor, and she is going back for "blood work" and its possible that the dr is doing just as you say, taking samples via a catheter. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious.

Purrs for your mother coming over. We’re hoping that the diagnosis was correct. — Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki

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(snipped)  Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious.

We are sending purrs for this to be so; healthpurrs for your mom and soothing purrs for you. —— Krista

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I thought I’d ask here since some of you (Howard!) seem to know human anatomy and medicine as much as feline. Is it possible to tell if someone has a benign tumor from an MRI? The reason I ask is because my mom has some adrenal gland issues and some pain, and had an MRI and her dr said she has a benign tumor on it but no biospy has been done. She has to go for followup bloodwork but how can a diagnosis of a benign tumor be given based on so little information?

Purrs and meatloaf medetations for your mother. — Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat.

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Lots of purrs and best wishes for your mother, Cheryl, — Polonca & Soncek

<snipits – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – possible that the dr is doing just as you say, taking samples via a catheter. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious. — Cheryl

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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Marina" Purrs for your mother coming over. We’re hoping that the diagnosis was correct.

Thank you, and all who sent purrs. It has just hit me that she needed purrs. Wow. I’m sure its nothing though. — Cheryl

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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", "Christine Burel" purrs for a good result for your mom, Cheryl

Thank you Christine. Needless to say I’m really worried. :( — Cheryl

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Howard Berkowitz It really depends on the tumor type and the experience of the interpreting physician.  In general, the less malignant tumors have sharply defined edges, even to the point of having a "capsule" or "shell" around them. Having some mysterious adrenal symptoms myself — I had to have CT rather than MRI as I have a pacemaker — anything significant going on in the adrenals will produce chemical changes in the blood or urine.  Some of the followup tests (or ones that already might have been done) involve things like eating an extremely salty diet for a few days while not taking certain drugs, then having blood taken after a significant period of standing. Others involve 24-hour urine collection. AFAIK, there are none that have to be done during a certain phase of the moon, or while sprinkling the patient with holy water or garlic. Now, I’m guessing here, but if there are still questions, there is a more invasive procedure that still isn’t a full biopsy: passing a catheter into blood vessels associated with the kidney, and taking some blood samples from there while possibly stimulating the adrenals.  In my own case, nothing showed on the CT, and the chemical results just weren’t significant enough to go any farther. Thank you. You eased my mind as to why it could have been diagnosed as a benign tumor, and she is going back for "blood work" and its possible that the dr is doing just as you say, taking samples via a catheter. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious.

Just to clarify, the catheter procedure is a hospital procedure (maybe just 23 hours), comparable to cardiac catheterization.  It’s done in sterile conditions under fluoroscope observation. Not to worry you, but it’s more than just drawing blood.

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purrs for a good result for your mom, Cheryl Christine

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Howard Berkowitz It really depends on the tumor type and the experience of the interpreting physician.  In general, the less malignant tumors have sharply defined edges, even to the point of having a "capsule" or "shell" around them. Having some mysterious adrenal symptoms myself — I had to have CT rather than MRI as I have a pacemaker — anything significant going on in the adrenals will produce chemical changes in the blood or urine.  Some of the followup tests (or ones that already might have been done) involve things like eating an extremely salty diet for a few days while not taking certain drugs, then having blood taken after a significant period of standing. Others involve 24-hour urine collection. AFAIK, there are none that have to be done during a certain phase of the moon, or while sprinkling the patient with holy water or garlic. Now, I’m guessing here, but if there are still questions, there is a more invasive procedure that still isn’t a full biopsy: passing a catheter into blood vessels associated with the kidney, and taking some blood samples from there while possibly stimulating the adrenals.  In my own case, nothing showed on the CT, and the chemical results just weren’t significant enough to go any farther. Thank you. You eased my mind as to why it could have been diagnosed as a benign tumor, and she is going back for "blood work" and its possible that the dr is doing just as you say, taking samples via a catheter. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious. — Cheryl

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In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.anecdotes", Howard Berkowitz – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It really depends on the tumor type and the experience of the interpreting physician.  In general, the less malignant tumors have sharply defined edges, even to the point of having a "capsule" or "shell" around them. Having some mysterious adrenal symptoms myself — I had to have CT rather than MRI as I have a pacemaker — anything significant going on in the adrenals will produce chemical changes in the blood or urine.  Some of the followup tests (or ones that already might have been done) involve things like eating an extremely salty diet for a few days while not taking certain drugs, then having blood taken after a significant period of standing. Others involve 24-hour urine collection. AFAIK, there are none that have to be done during a certain phase of the moon, or while sprinkling the patient with holy water or garlic. Now, I’m guessing here, but if there are still questions, there is a more invasive procedure that still isn’t a full biopsy: passing a catheter into blood vessels associated with the kidney, and taking some blood samples from there while possibly stimulating the adrenals.  In my own case, nothing showed on the CT, and the chemical results just weren’t significant enough to go any farther.

Thank you. You eased my mind as to why it could have been diagnosed as a benign tumor, and she is going back for "blood work" and its possible that the dr is doing just as you say, taking samples via a catheter. Keeping my fingers crossed and praying it isn’t anything serious. — Cheryl

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I thought I’d ask here since some of you (Howard!) seem to know human anatomy and medicine as much as feline. Is it possible to tell if someone has a benign tumor from an MRI? The reason I ask is because my mom has some adrenal gland issues and some pain, and had an MRI and her dr said she has a benign tumor on it but no biospy has been done. She has to go for followup bloodwork but how can a diagnosis of a benign tumor be given based on so little information? — Cheryl /worried

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I thought I’d ask here since some of you (Howard!) seem to know human anatomy and medicine as much as feline. Is it possible to tell if someone has a benign tumor from an MRI? The reason I ask is because my mom has some adrenal gland issues and some pain, and had an MRI and her dr said she has a benign tumor on it but no biospy has been done. She has to go for followup bloodwork but how can a diagnosis of a benign tumor be given based on so little information?

It really depends on the tumor type and the experience of the interpreting physician.  In general, the less malignant tumors have sharply defined edges, even to the point of having a "capsule" or "shell" around them. Having some mysterious adrenal symptoms myself — I had to have CT rather than MRI as I have a pacemaker — anything significant going on in the adrenals will produce chemical changes in the blood or urine.   Some of the followup tests (or ones that already might have been done) involve things like eating an extremely salty diet for a few days while not taking certain drugs, then having blood taken after a significant period of standing. Others involve 24-hour urine collection. AFAIK, there are none that have to be done during a certain phase of the moon, or while sprinkling the patient with holy water or garlic. Now, I’m guessing here, but if there are still questions, there is a more invasive procedure that still isn’t a full biopsy:  passing a catheter into blood vessels associated with the kidney, and taking some blood samples from there while possibly stimulating the adrenals.  In my own case, nothing showed on the CT, and the chemical results just weren’t significant enough to go any farther.

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I see at other sites that Dr. B. was accepted into Phase II FDA trials with his cancer treatment/prospective cure in 1996.  Since we’re now going into 2004 & that was 8 years ago, what is the status?  Are these the clincal trials that supposedly cost $125,000?

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The Anatoxin-a Primer implied that Super Blue Green Algae from Klamath Lake, produced by Cell Tech, contains anatoxin-a (a neurotoxin I characterized asaddictive), and that Cell Tech ***deliberately**** avoids testing for this toxin THERE IS THE LIE!!!!!

Well, Jan, what exactly do the statements referred to by this statement say?  What is the original statement which is a lie? You say that there is a lie in the file "An Anatoxin-A Primer". Let’s see that lie.  Post a WHOLE ORIGINAL STATEMENT from that file which is a lie.  Not the whole file, just a statement which is a LIE. Certainly, you know where that part is, don’t you Jan? Or do you just accuse people of being liars without regard to whether they’ve lied or not. Why don’t you post this part, Jan?  Then you’d prove that I’d lied, by posting the actual lie itself, rather than merely a statement that refers to the (alleged) lie. Why don’t you do that, Jan? Is it because if you did, everybody would see that this statement is OBVIOUSLY NOT A LIE? Is it because if you did, everybody would see the Jan Drew has FALSELY ACCUSED me of being a LIAR? Is it because if you did, everybody would see that it is Jan Drew who is the LIAR? Is that it, Jan? Is that why you won’t post this LIE you claim I told? You are a despicable human being.

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This is all bullshit, Jan.  Burzynski IS a quack. have a look at his web site http://www.cancermed.com/index.htm Show me where he offers any evidence that his treatment cures any form of cancer, so as to justify  its enormous cost.   By definition that makes him a quack.   He has even admitted in a magazine interview that he doesn’t know how often his treatment works.  After twenty five years of "research"?  Come on!!!

You’re missing the point, Peter, Jan has taken me to task, and even called me a liar, for saying that Burzynski has claimed to have cured people. In her eyes, someone who has treated 8,000 patients without ever achieving a single cure is doing a good job. The only place you will find any data is on his supporter’s web site, and that is uninterpretable very short term follow-up claiming a 65% remision rate with brain tumours already treated by other means. What is his final cure rate with biopsy-proven, otherwise untreatable, brain tumours?  What is his cure rate with metastatic cancer?  Why are cancer patients invited to give him a great deal of money, but not entitled to know these things?  He claims to not have the funds to publish any research, but by his own admission is taking in millions of dollars yearly. Peter Moran

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More mumbo jumbo, because you were caught *deceving* AGAIN.

When are YOU going to provide an example of one of these LIES you claim I told?  I keep asking for that, but you never post EVEN ONE example of these lies you claim I told. What does that make you, Jan? What do you call a person that makes false accusations, and never backs them up?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is all bullshit, Jan.  Burzynski IS a quack. have a look at his web site http://www.cancermed.com/index.htm Show me where he offers any evidence that his treatment cures any form of cancer, so as to justify  its enormous cost.   By definition that makes him a quack.   He has even admitted in a magazine interview that he doesn’t know how often his treatment works.  After twenty five years of "research"?  Come on!!! You’re missing the point, Peter, Jan has taken me to task, and even called me a liar, for saying that Burzynski has claimed to have cured people.

No, I said you made it up, which is a fact, as the word *cure* does not appear to be said by Dr Burznski. You state his claims  of a cure were what made him a quack Then you swirched to the fact he had never claimed a cure. Then you accused him of being  inconsistent, which proves my point that the debunkers transfer what the are guilty of to others. I stated, either prove he is a quack or stop lying. In her eyes, someone who has treated 8,000 patients without ever achieving a single cure is doing a good job.

Get over the use of the word cure. I posted his success rate. You are showing us the exact workings of organized medicine and it’s dishonesty. Jan

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I see at other sites that Dr. B. was accepted into Phase II FDA trials with his cancer treatment/prospective cure in 1996.  Since we’re now going into 2004 & that was 8 years ago, what is the status?  Are these the clincal trials that supposedly cost $125,000?

At one stage he had all 72 of them up on his web site. It was the one trial repeated 72 times, using the Replace All option in Microsoft Word to make each new one. The one I remember best was a "cure" for cancer of the cervix which suddenly started talking about ovaries in mid-sentence. Anybody who got worse was removed from the trials immediately, so only "successes" remained. To be called a success, a cancer had to grow by less that 100% in a month. Let me repeat that in another way. If someone had a cancer which grew 50% in size in a month, it was considered a success. Groups were aggregated into different "trials" to keep the numbers up as people dropped out or died. He called his treatments "clinical trials" because his lawyers had found a loophole in the regulations. He could say that he was doing research rather than treatment. I assume it was the same lawyers who told him to never utter the word "cure". The $125,000 case was a 14 year old girl. I found a web site set up by a family friend trying to raise the money. Someone I know contacted the site owner and he was horrified to find that the site was still visible. The ISP who had donated the web space was supposed to have removed the site after the girl died. We were not able to find out whether she had survived for more than a month under Burzynski’s "care", thus being counted as a success under his trial criteria. — Peter Bowditch The Millenium Project    http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles The Green Light          http://www.ratbags.com/greenlight and The New Improved Quintessence of the Loon with added Vitamins and C-Q10 http://www.ratbags.com/loon To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Sue in Texas has a problem.  She obviously doesn’t like traditional medicine people (not to mention, lawyers, global corporations, insurance companies, the Government, etc. etc.), so maybe it’s time for you (Jan, Dr. Ph.d, whoever) to step up to the plate & give her some concrete ideas on how to cure her cancer since you’re the experts.  Where should she go? What should she do?  Now’s the time to jump in. As Sue is in Texas, the obvious way to go would seem to be the Burzynski route, but Jan agrees with me that after 8,000 patients Burzynski has yet to claim a single cure. He is therefore such an abject failure that he is probably best avoided. One needs to be very careful reading Peter Bowditch’s posts. First he states Burzynski is a quack because he claims to cure cancer, AIDS and autoimmune diseases. To those who don’t know Jan, she is what is known as an absolute concrete literalist.

You literally said *he is a quack because he claims to cure cancer, AIDS and autoimmune diseases*. You made that up as he said no such thing. You have a habit of making things up. Unless Burzynski actually used the specific word "cure", to her he has not claimed the ability cure anything.

More mumbo jumbo, because you were caught *deceving* AGAIN. If he says that he can make things all better, that is not using the word "cure" and so he is not claiming a cure.

That’s correct. You said he is a quack because he cliams claims to cure cancer, AIDS and autoimmune diseases. That was your reason to call him a quack. This literalist nonsense

Is another diversion. <snip He didn’t ,of course, Peter made it up. 8,000 patients and not one claimed cure. Sounds like failure to me.

It sounds to me like you made things up again, when caught you stated, in reply to my question: I don’t believe the word *cure* appears of his website, does it??

Precisely the point I am making. When in fact you were making the opposite point. Despite claiming to have treated

8,000 patients, Burzynski is very careful not to say that he has cured anyone. That doesn’t jive with what you first stated. You make things up so much, you can’t keep track of what you wrote. Then he states if he hasn’t claimed a cure, he must be a failure. Has he cured anyone?

I don’t know, I know you made it up when you said he claims a *cure* After 8,000 attempts without a cure, it is certainly looking like failure.

Look again. Peter also overlooks these facts: (see his success rate at the bottom) He is a member in good standing of the American and World Medical Associations, The American Association for Cancer Research, The Society for Neuroscience, The Texas Medical Association, The Academy of Medical Ethics, The Society for Neuro-Oncology, and many others. Dr. Burzynski has privileges at the Bayou City Medical Center in Houston. Jan hates

This has nothing whatsoever to do with what I hate, furthermore you are making another claim. the AMA as it is a creation of Satan

Boy you are one swift learner. Please do copy and paste where I said that. HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Peter, you did it AGAIN!!!! <snip more <sigh diversion Dr. Burzynski received his M.D. degree from the Medical Academy of Lublin, Poland, in 1967, where he was first in his class. That same year, he identified naturally occurring peptides in the body which he concluded control the growth of cancer. He subsequently earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry. From 1970 to 1977, he served as a researcher and assistant professor at the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where his research was sponsored and partially funded by the National Cancer Institute. In May 1977 he founded the Burzynski Clinic in Houston where he has treated over 8,000

patients. He also serves as director of the Burzynski Research Institute, where he continues to pursue scientific research on causes and treatments for cancer. Dr. Burzynski, is the author and co-author of 182 scientific publications and

isthe recipient of numerous prestigious awards. He currently holds 160 patents in 35 countries for his treatments and inventions, and he has been the subject of many articles and interviews. I didn’t overlook the fact that someone who claims to have "182 scientific publications" is only mentioned 9 times in Medline. Perhaps his other 173 publications were in the paleontology literature.

You overlook the fact that he is a member in good standing, the recipient of numberous aswards, his methods are being used in 35 countries. That certainly doesn’t sound like a quack to me. Other groups have replicated and expanded Dr. Burzynski

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. Mind-boggling nonsense. Peter Moran "..so many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value."  - committee advising Ferdinand and Isabella regarding Columbus’ proposal, 1486 "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors lied, than that stones fell from the sky" – Thomas Jefferson, 1807 on hearing an eyewitness report of falling meteorites. "Drill for oil?  You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?   You’re crazy." – Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." – Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." – Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. "This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us." – Western Union internal memo, 1876. I’VE HEARD ONE REPORT THAT THIS QUOTE WAS A HOAX, THE INTERNAL MEMO WAS A RECENT FORGERY "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievious to to its true progress" – Sir William Siemens, 1880, on Edison’s announcement of a sucessful light bulb. "We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy." – Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888 "Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time.  Nobody will use it, ever." – Thomas Edison, 1889 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. NO, THIS WAS A MISQUOTE, HE NEVER SAID THIS.  SKEPTICAL INQUIRER EVEN DEBUNKED THIS. "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote…. Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."  - physicist Albert. A. Michelson, 1894 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere." – Thomas Edison, 1895 "The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which men shall fly for long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."  - astronomer S. Newcomb, 1906 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." – Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. "Caterpillar landships are idiotic and useless.  Those officers and men are wasting their time and are not pulling their proper weight in the war" – Fourth Lord of the British Admiralty, 1915, in regards to use of tanks in war. "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.  He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." – 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard’s revolutionary rocket work. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.   Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" – David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in  the radio in the 1920s. "All a trick."  "A Mere Mountebank."  "Absolute swindler."  "Doesn’t know what he’s about."  "What’s the good of it?"  "What useful purpose will it serve?" – Members of Britain’s Royal Society, 1926, after a demonstration of television. "This foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd lengths to which vicious specialisation will carry scientists."   -A.W. Bickerton, physicist, NZ, 1926 "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" – H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." – Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.  It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."    – Albert Einstein, 1932 "The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing.  Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine" – Ernst Rutherford, 1933 "The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]…presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author’s insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished."  Richard van der Riet Wooley, British astronomer, reviewing P.E. Cleator’s "Rockets in Space", Nature, March 14, 1936 "Space travel is utter bilge!" -Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley, astronomer "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." – Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year." – The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "Space travel is bunk" -Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the Unided States." -T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 "We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. "But what… is it good for?" – Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." – Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible." – A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper  proposing reliable overnight delivery service.  (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." – Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in"Gone With The Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea.  Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." – Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment.  The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this." – Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M "Post-It" Notepads. "So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you.  We just want to do it.  Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’  And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you.  You haven’t got through college yet.’" – Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer. "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can’t be done.  It’s just a fact of life.  You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." – Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 1981

Once again Jan pulls a favorite pseudoscience technique: Quoting experts who made statements about the possibility of something and were later proven by events or others to be wrong. This technique seeks to falsely associate the quack with the theories, predictions, or great visionaries that were incorrectly rejected by the experts of the day and then later shown to be correct, leading to a change in their field. It’s a very transparent ploy, which Michael Shermer once called "Heresy does not equal correctness." History is full of tales of the lone scientist working in spite of his peers and flying in the face of the doctrines of the day in his or her field of study. The vast majority of … read more »

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Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. Mind-boggling nonsense.

What’s even mind-boggling is that anyone would believe such pseudoscientific rubbish. More proof of the inadequacy of basic science education in this country. — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case… It is good trade craft to set up meetings on short notice. In this way, the authorities have less of a chance of getting wind of it and sending in their agents.

Indeed. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) The average annual consuption of Vodka in Russia would convince you that the country is composed of 100% alcoholics.

It was a joke, Mark…. Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. What the hell? Does she even know what she is talking about here? "Hypothalamus" cells, "pituitary" cells, and "pancreas" cells do not travel to other parts of the body. Well, at least she is no claiming that they are caused by flukes. What is her experimental evidence for this bizarre assertion? She does not have any. She uses medical buzz words and pseudo-science to rope in the gullible.

Quite true. It does indeed amaze me how thin the veneer of pseudoscience is on her quackery, though–and how that thin a veneer is more than adequate. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Oh, my goodness. She’s gone totally off the deep end! At least her previous stuff about "parasites" could be made (with some difficulty) to at least sound a little bit plausible. This is totally loony–even loonier than homeopathy, which it’s obviously been adapted from. [Snip] Orac, the forum where I got this accepts her word as gospel. She is a disciple of P. T. Barnum.

Disciple? Hell, she’s done him one better and become the master. — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Good grief!

I’ll give her credit for taking the utter scientific ridiculousness of the "theory" behind homeopathy and, as Emeril would say, "kicking it up a notch or two." — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Good grief!   Tsu Dho Nimh

Bertha and her are twins….both are completely NUTS! r — "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke (1917 – ), "Technology and the Future"

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Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. Mind-boggling nonsense. Peter Moran

Jan’s repeated re-posted drivel of tripe deleted. Otherwise, to quote Jan… ZZZZzzzzzzzz…yawn….snore…..

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Well a lot of "alt" doctrine seems to be based on the beliefs of Graham and Kellogg, both of whom seemed convinced that one of the most important functions of medicine was to keep people from masturbating. Do tell. I hadn’t heard that one before. ;-)

Start with <http://www3.azwestern.edu/psy/dgershaw/lol/SexGraham&Kellogg.html. Actually, a Google search on "graham kellogg masturbation" brings up lots of high-quality results (no porn sites among the first hundred).

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Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. Mind-boggling nonsense. Peter Moran

"..so many centuries after the Creation it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value."  - committee advising Ferdinand and Isabella regarding Columbus’ proposal, 1486 "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors lied, than that stones fell from the sky" – Thomas Jefferson, 1807 on hearing an eyewitness report of falling meteorites. "Drill for oil?  You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?   You’re crazy." – Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." – Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." – Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. "This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us." – Western Union internal memo, 1876. I’VE HEARD ONE REPORT THAT THIS QUOTE WAS A HOAX, THE INTERNAL MEMO WAS A RECENT FORGERY "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievious to to its true progress" – Sir William Siemens, 1880, on Edison’s announcement of a sucessful light bulb. "We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy." – Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888 "Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time.  Nobody will use it, ever." – Thomas Edison, 1889 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. NO, THIS WAS A MISQUOTE, HE NEVER SAID THIS.  SKEPTICAL INQUIRER EVEN DEBUNKED THIS. "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote…. Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."  - physicist Albert. A. Michelson, 1894 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere." – Thomas Edison, 1895 "The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which men shall fly for long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."  - astronomer S. Newcomb, 1906 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." – Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. "Caterpillar landships are idiotic and useless.  Those officers and men are wasting their time and are not pulling their proper weight in the war" – Fourth Lord of the British Admiralty, 1915, in regards to use of tanks in war. "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.  He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." – 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard’s revolutionary rocket work. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.   Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" – David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in  the radio in the 1920s. "All a trick."  "A Mere Mountebank."  "Absolute swindler."  "Doesn’t know what he’s about."  "What’s the good of it?"  "What useful purpose will it serve?" – Members of Britain’s Royal Society, 1926, after a demonstration of television. "This foolish idea of shooting at the moon is an example of the absurd lengths to which vicious specialisation will carry scientists."   -A.W. Bickerton, physicist, NZ, 1926 "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" – H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." – Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.  It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."    – Albert Einstein, 1932 "The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing.  Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine" – Ernst Rutherford, 1933 "The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space]…presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author’s insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished."  Richard van der Riet Wooley, British astronomer, reviewing P.E. Cleator’s "Rockets in Space", Nature, March 14, 1936 "Space travel is utter bilge!" -Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley, astronomer "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." – Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year." – The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "Space travel is bunk" -Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the Unided States." -T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961 "We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. "But what… is it good for?" – Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." – Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible." – A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper  proposing reliable overnight delivery service.  (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." – Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in"Gone With The Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea.  Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." – Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment.  The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this." – Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3M "Post-It" Notepads. "So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you.  We just want to do it.  Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’  And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you.  You haven’t got through college yet.’" – Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer. "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can’t be done.  It’s just a fact of life.  You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." – Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 1981

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Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of!

Good grief!   Tsu Dho Nimh — When businesses invoke the "protection of consumers," it’s a lot like politicians invoking morality and children – grab your wallet and/or your kid and run for your life.

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Simple solution – distil the water a few times and you have lost most of the rubbish. Anth

Bingo ! BTW can you use the distillation apparatus to make spirits ?

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I dare say you can – wouldn’t like to try it though – ethanol boils at ~78 – methanol ~65. You would get the methanol 1st, and since there’s no control over what you are boiling out, it’s a bit risky tbh. Anth

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Simple solution – distil the water a few times and you have lost most of the rubbish. Anth Bingo ! BTW can you use the distillation apparatus to make spirits ?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Orac: This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case… Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-)

"Mandrake, pour me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater!" This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.   I really don’t want to go there…

Yeah, nobody needs images like that floating around in their head. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."

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Orac: "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.  

Well a lot of "alt" doctrine seems to be based on the beliefs of Graham and Kellogg, both of whom seemed convinced that one of the most important functions of medicine was to keep people from masturbating.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Orac: "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.   Well a lot of "alt" doctrine seems to be based on the beliefs of Graham and Kellogg, both of whom seemed convinced that one of the most important functions of medicine was to keep people from masturbating.

Did you get that, Atlas, Stuart, & MedTools?  Stop wanking!

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Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors.

Mind-boggling nonsense. Peter Moran

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This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression. I really don’t want to go there… Yeah, nobody needs images like that floating around in their head.

W C Fields preempted Hulda.  He wouldn’t drink the water.    Fish f–k in it. Peter Moran – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Orac: "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.   Well a lot of "alt" doctrine seems to be based on the beliefs of Graham and Kellogg, both of whom seemed convinced that one of the most important functions of medicine was to keep people from masturbating.

Do tell. I hadn’t heard that one before. ;-) — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case…

It is good trade craft to set up meetings on short notice. In this way, the authorities have less of a chance of getting wind of it and sending in their agents. Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-)

The average annual consuption of Vodka in Russia would convince you that the country is composed of 100% alcoholics. [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. What the hell? Does she even know what she is talking about here? "Hypothalamus" cells, "pituitary" cells, and "pancreas" cells do not travel to other parts of the body.

Well, at least she is no claiming that they are caused by flukes. What is her experimental evidence for this bizarre assertion?

She does not have any. She uses medical buzz words and pseudo-science to rope in the gullible. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Oh, my goodness. She’s gone totally off the deep end! At least her previous stuff about "parasites" could be made (with some difficulty) to at least sound a little bit plausible. This is totally loony–even loonier than homeopathy, which it’s obviously been adapted from. [Snip]

Orac, the forum where I got this accepts her word as gospel. She is a disciple of P. T. Barnum.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Orac: This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case… Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.  

I really don’t want to go there… — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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Simple solution – distil the water a few times and you have lost most of the rubbish. Anth

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor

[Snip] – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Oh, my goodness. She’s gone totally off the deep end! At least her previous stuff about "parasites" could be made (with some difficulty) to at least sound a little bit plausible. This is totally loony–even loonier than homeopathy, which it’s obviously been adapted from. My! you sure protest a lot. Business getting bad? Not enough people want you drugs? Not making enough money?

Your feeble attempt at demonizing me runs up against the simple fact that how much money I make does not depend on how many patients I treat, how many drugs I prescribe, or how many surgeries I do. I work on a straight salary for a state academic institution. I could make a lot more in private practice, but choose not to because I believe I can do more good trying to advance medicine through research. — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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Orac: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case… Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-)

This is such a common principle in the pro-alt psyche that you wonder if they all suffer from post-coital depression.   – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -[Snip]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. One wonders why this was the case… Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. "Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. What the hell? Does she even know what she is talking about here? "Hypothalamus" cells, "pituitary" cells, and "pancreas" cells do not travel to other parts of the body. What is her experimental evidence for this bizarre assertion? [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! Oh, my goodness. She’s gone totally off the deep end! At least her previous stuff about "parasites" could be made (with some difficulty) to at least sound a little bit plausible. This is totally loony–even loonier than homeopathy, which it’s obviously been adapted from. [Snip] — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

                                     My! you sure protest a lot. Business getting bad? Not enough people want you drugs? Not making enough money?

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion.

One wonders why this was the case… Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also.

"Doctor Strangelove," "purity of essence," and "precious bodily fluids" come to mind here. Those of you who’ve seen the movie will know exactly what I’m talking about. The obvious solution is to do what the Russians supposedly do (again from the movie)–drink only vodka. ;-) [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors.

What the hell? Does she even know what she is talking about here? "Hypothalamus" cells, "pituitary" cells, and "pancreas" cells do not travel to other parts of the body. What is her experimental evidence for this bizarre assertion? [Snip] Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of!

Oh, my goodness. She’s gone totally off the deep end! At least her previous stuff about "parasites" could be made (with some difficulty) to at least sound a little bit plausible. This is totally loony–even loonier than homeopathy, which it’s obviously been adapted from. [Snip] — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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This is from a report posted on the Curezone. Amazing that people can actually believe this garbage. I got a mail, – have not read all of it yet, but hope it will give you some new information! Meeting with Dr. Clark in New York City By Steve Taylor On August 2, 2003 I was very fortunate to be able to attend a meeting with Dr. Clark and 12 other Clark enthusiasts in New York City. The meeting was held without much prior notice, so it was indeed a rare and seemingly providential occasion. Dr. Clark started the meeting by stating the she was very happy and that she wanted to share some of her latest findings with us and also that she needed our help. Dr. Clark is very concerned about our municipal water supply in the United States. She has found 5 substances in our water that can inhibit the immune system and feels this contributes largely to diseases such as Cancer and AIDS. Full recovery from either Cancer or AIDS is likely only with pure, unpolluted water to drink. For those of us not suffering from such conditions, our livers and kidneys can filter out some of these pollutants for a while, but we would eventually be at risk also. The five substances polluting our water that she is most concerned about are PCB’s, benzene, asbestos, azo dyes, and heavy metals. The worst pollutant seems to be azo dyes (there are at least 18 of them). Dr. Clark has not found a way to remove them from the body. The most likely source for PCB’s, benzene and azo dyes may well be common laundry bleach. The main ingredient (sodium hypochlorite) is not the problem. The additives (brighteners and whiteners) and solvents are the problem. To verify this she needs us to send water samples to her for testing. At the end of this message is a detailed instruction about how to collect water samples. She would also like us to see if there are pumping stations separate from the main water plant and if so take a picture of it and send it with the water sample. She suspects that the source of the pollution may not be the main facility, but may instead be the outlying pumping stations. I strongly encourage all of you to help Dr. Clark and send water samples to her! Until the problem can be found and corrected at the source, there are a few procedures you can do to protect yourself if you have municipal water. First boil the tap water (a rolling boil for at least 1 minute) to remove the chlorine, PCB’s and benzene and then once cool, filter it using a carbon filter to remove the heavy metals. PCB’s can clog water filters and make contamination worse if boiling is not done. Drinking bottled water is usually not a good solution either, as bleach or other solvents are often used to clean the bottles and equipment at the plant. Well water may be all right so long as the well is not drilled using laundry bleach to disinfect the drill. Dr. Clark has also found the same immune destroyers present in many of our supplements. Apparently laundry bleach is used to disinfect equipment at the plant too. So it is best to only take supplements that are tested for such pollutants. Dr. Clark also talked in detail about the pathology of cancer. Briefly her latest finding is that simple food chemicals can trigger the dispersion of hypothalamus cells, pituitary cells and pancreas cells which then travel and fuse to other parts of the body to start tumors. One of the food chemicals that seem to play a big role in cancer is chlorogenic acid. It is found in unripe fruits, dairy products, fried and undercooked potatoes and coffee. Cooking destroys the chemical. It is found to have an allergic effect for the hypothalamus, which contributes to the tumor nucleus for all tumors. Phloridzin is an allergen for the pituitary and is present in apples, soy products, pork, and unripe fruit. It initiates the tumor nucleus for all cancers. Again, cooking destroys the chemical. Gallic acid is an allergen for the pancreas. It is present in all grains and in oils that are preserved with propyl gallate. Again, cooking destroys it. Dr. Clark has found that onions are essential for the survival of Fasciolopsis, the parasite that is usually found with cancer. Many other food chemicals also contribute to specific cancers and can be found on page 627 of the new "Cure for HIV and AIDS" book by Dr. Clark. Apparently eating the same foods daily, especially if it is one of those above, puts you at risk for cancer. So it is best to eat a wide variety of foods. Cooked food seems to cause less of an allergic response and of course, keeping your liver and kidneys in good condition by doing liver flushes and kidney cleanses, the parasite program and zapping is your best defense against cancer. Dr. Clark also talked about her discovery and use of Homeographic drops. Homeography is a term coined by Dr. Clark and should not be confused with Homeopathy. Homeography is based on the fact that water has the ability to incorporate the frequency pattern of a healthy organ or an antidote. When the drops are taken under the tongue, the new frequency patterns are then superimposed on your own organ, (which may have been missing frequencies due to disease) and thus it seems to have restorative effects. You can make these drops using the information on page 86 in the new "Cure for AIDS and HIV" book by Dr. Clark. You can also order these from www.drclark.com. Homeographic copies of parasites, pathogens and pollutants are used for testing purposes with the Syncrometer and should not be taken internally as it would strengthen the disease you are trying to get rid of! My discussion in this email is merely a brief summation of the information Dr. Clark gave to us that day. And while that information was fascinating and very valuable, it was even more of a pleasure for those that attended, just to be with Dr. Clark. She was like a mother or grandmother to us all, just wanting to be sure that we were all well. She was a real delight and special treat for all of us! Sincerely, Steve How to Test for PCB and Benzene In Your Drinking Water Find a plastic pail or large bowl. Rinse it without using soap. Place the pail in a warm place where it won’t be disturbed, like on the kitchen counter. Run

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2 more tumors found growing in me. tumors, not lesions from the ms, but tumors terrified and self-blaming.  and lonely                             and by myself lonely.                                                             alone. keep having little dream snatches while i’m awake.         even i can see one of them because it protrudes under my skin which puffs out like a golf ball right near where remaining kidney is. the neurologist did a couple of bad things — sent reports to a doctor i stopped seeng years ago because he saw her name on film of earliest mri, but he never got a release from me nor discssed this matter, never asked if there was a doctor  should send reports tool.”i’llmfo sorry fading later trill

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Nancy,     I’m about ready to give up posting here for support.  Mostly I don’t feel that I get it.  A bit I get it it.  Certainly you are always there for me.  The best friends that I’ve made here have all stopped writing here and, as we continue communication away from here, they share the same frustrations with asd as I’ve experienced.  Only those frustrations led them to leave or to drop in and read some now and then but mostly not to write.     Meanwhile, in the case of any further posts from me, could you do me a favor and keep the post to which you respond in the response post that you compose, please?  It helps me to keep oriented about what you are writing. plse. scroll:

trill, I’m so sorry to hear this bad news. Do you have information about the nature of the tumors, or are you having more tests done?

    initial speculations by doctors.  must have biopsies and removals to know for sure.  one is quite large.  other probably can’t be reached without doing more serious damage to me than it may be worth, so, who know?     not feeling so happy, to put it mildly, lately.  hard to keep believing that i will be able to return to work when everytime i turn around a new, serious health problem that always ends up complicating the existing health problems, especially the major one, crops up.  and the doctors are so rude. and i don’t have anyone to advocate for me.  my sister has attended a couple doctor appts. with me but she harbors intense and enormous ill will toward me and always behaves abusively toward me and instead of advocating for me with the doctors she tells me that i am bad in my behavior and that is why i have trouble with the doctors.     but here’s an example:  saw the neurologist last friday for follow up after 6 wks of treatment in phys. thrpy. and pain management.  this is the doc who said explicitly not to have the epidural steroid injections.  so i began to complain to him that the pain management guy he sent me to pressured me to have epidural steroid injections.  i asked if they had ever spoken.  neurologist said no.  i said, well the guy lied to me then because he told me that he had talked to you and that you had told him that you recommend the epidurals.  then i showed the neurologist this big lump on my back that the phys. thrp. told me looked like a tumor.  and neurologist poked it, causing lots of pain that lasted for about 48 hrs. and said, it looks like a lipoma, but can’t be sure w/out biopsy.  you should show it to dr. soandso.  what, i said, quite alarmed.  she’s not my doctor.  i haven’t seen her for years.  she is totally incompetent.  why do you mention her? and then the neurologist said, i refuse to be your doctor.  i will not allow you to insult my colleagues and continue to treat you.  get out of my office.     well, come to find out, he has been sending reports about me to this doctor whom i no longer see.  and i pointed out that he has violated law, as in hipaa (or whatever the initials are), that i have signed no releases for him to talk to this doctor, that i told him who my primary care physician is, etc.  and he says, oh, i guess i made a mistake.     i did, then, when i got home, report him to the hsptl that he is associated with and i also called the physicans licensing board and they are sending me a complaint form to fill out.     but then a friend said to me that i’m probably going to get myself blacklisted as a patientfrom any doctor.     well, what am i supposed to do?  just let these guys do stuff to me that could paralyze me, or worse, the worst, and also let them just say whatever the blankety blank they please to whomever, despite laws and regulations about care and privacy?  that isn’t getting me taken care of anyway.  the lump has been on my back for several years.  it has just suddenly gotten bigger and begun to cause pain.  but the doctor who no longer works for me, the one i referred to as incompetent, was my primary care phys. for several years and she never even looked at my body, never examined anything about my skin or felt my muscles or anything.  a physical in her office was a cbc and a urine test.  i’m not kidding nor exagerating. I wish I could find some way to help.

    if i suggest a way for you to help, will you?         forget it.  that’s a rhetorical question.  already you have way too much to deal with.             everyone has way too much to deal with.  and i stupidly forgot to build up any sort of family type network, so now i’m just alone in the world with only and occasional tidbit of mock assistance.  i have no energy to do my housework.  i’ve lost hope about being able to return to any sort of work for pay.  and i can hardly ever stop crying unless i’m asleep. I feel very useless in this kind of situation. I am so sorry that you are going through so many serious medical issues.

thanks.  but you’ve got too many of your own problems to be investing any energy in being sorry about mine.  just take care of yourself, please.  at least you make a contribution to the world. It is scary and painful and frustrating to have to go through all of this.

it’s painful, terrifying, and demoralizing.  everytime i wake from sleep i wonder why.  absolute truth — first thought when my eyes open is, "what? again?  why do i keep living?  what wakes me up?  there’s no reason to be here for me anymore.  all i do is sit and suffer.  and i do it alone."     maybe i’ll be able to get the courage together to do something about it.         don’t worry.  i’m not writing a s**cde note.  it’s just that old, nagging ideation. I’m glad you are able to keep posting here for support.

why?  no, really.  that is not a rhetorical question.  why are you glad that i am writing here?  most others seem not interested at all.  you have been attacked for giving me attention.  and the occasional one or another who takes time and effort to respond to me usually says nothing more than the bare minimum of something like gee, that sucks and i hope you feel better.     but, i’m not going to feel better, and that is just the fact.     my body is failing me in a serial variety of ways.     the t in whom i placed all of my trust, and who actually did use to help me by advocating for me and by finding resources to help me, turned his back on me last summer when i was mistreated in the hsptl, as did someone whom i considered to be my closest friend at the time.  and then there was that police incident, which did serious bodily damage to me, but about which i’ve been politely told to shut up, here, at asd, and to get over it already. and the police haven’t concluded anything from their "closed" investigation, yet.     plus there is a lot of other crap going on.  i won’t write about it now, because somebody or other will get pissed off, i’m sure, but maybe later. sorry.  it’s more of that disgusting self-pity. I hope you’ll give more details about this when you can.

why?  again, i really want to know why?  what is anybody going to do?  i’m just sitting here rotting and all of my stuff is rotting around me, and i tried to hire somebody to help me with getting stuff in order and i haven’t even been able to succeed in that. so, why?  why would anyone want to hear about it unless there is some vicarious pleasure in knowing about how totally crumby my life is and how terrified and lonely i am as i face all of this.  why, then?  really.  why? it’s not that i don’t appreciate your expressions of concern and care.  i do.    but, well, i also feel that i am a burden upon you, one who is already overburdened in her own life. so, i’m sorry. trill – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – -Nancy

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trill, I’m so sorry to hear this bad news. Do you have information about the nature of the tumors, or are you having more tests done? I wish I could find some way to help. I feel very useless in this kind of situation. I am so sorry that you are going through so many serious medical issues. It is scary and painful and frustrating to have to go through all of this. I’m glad you are able to keep posting here for support. I hope you’ll give more details about this when you can. -Nancy

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trill, sorry about it, i can understand how difficult and lonely that can feel….. i wish i had the answers and solutions…. lately i talk with someone i know a little bit, she says she is contact with angels – after all why not – i am not short minded ??? in front of my own depression and despair she suggested me to stay on my bed 5 minutes a day, empty my heart of my feelings of pains and distress and visualize myself as healthy as i want to me… she said after all this is free, no need for a doctor, no need for money…. it’s the internal powers: ask them she said… i feel like i have nothing much left… and yet i know others have more pains and difficulties that i have, but why not he? maybe you could give it a try too…. think of that beach and that full moon, visualize yourself healthy and peaceful and smiling…. my best wishes for you from far far away and yet closer than it seems phoenix – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – 2 more tumors found growing in me. tumors, not lesions from the ms, but tumors terrified and self-blaming.  and lonely                             and by myself lonely.                                                             alone. keep having little dream snatches while i’m awake.         even i can see one of them because it protrudes under my skin which puffs out like a golf ball right near where remaining kidney is. the neurologist did a couple of bad things — sent reports to a doctor i stopped seeng years ago because he saw her name on film of earliest mri, but he never got a release from me nor discssed this matter, never asked if there was a doctor  should send reports tool.”i’llmfo sorry fading later trill

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Hi, trill. Scroll down for responses. Nancy,    I’m about ready to give up posting here for support.  Mostly I don’t feel that I get it.  A bit I get it it.  Certainly you are always there for me.  The best friends that I’ve made here have all stopped writing here and, as we continue communication away from here, they share the same frustrations with asd as I’ve experienced.  Only those frustrations led them to leave or to drop in and read some now and then but mostly not to write.

Well, it is good to hear that you have at least this small virtual support system.    Meanwhile, in the case of any further posts from me, could you do me a favor and keep the post to which you respond in the response post that you compose, please?  It helps me to keep oriented about what you are writing.

Sure. I sometimes get more confused with the scrolling, but I will at the least keep your message and attach it at the end if I’m not scrolling. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -plse. scroll: trill, I’m so sorry to hear this bad news. Do you have information about the nature of the tumors, or are you having more tests done?    initial speculations by doctors.  must have biopsies and removals to know for sure.  one is quite large.  other probably can’t be reached without doing more serious damage to me than it may be worth, so, who know?    not feeling so happy, to put it mildly, lately.  hard to keep believing that i will be able to return to work when everytime i turn around a new, serious health problem that always ends up complicating the existing health problems, especially the major one, crops up.  and the doctors are so rude. and i don’t have anyone to advocate for me.  my sister has attended a couple doctor appts. with me but she harbors intense and enormous ill will toward me and always behaves abusively toward me and instead of advocating for me with the doctors she tells me that i am bad in my behavior and that is why i have trouble with the doctors.

Is your sister oblivious to all the ways doctors can mistreat people, or is she just oblivious when it is regarding you? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    but here’s an example:  saw the neurologist last friday for follow up after 6 wks of treatment in phys. thrpy. and pain management.  this is the doc who said explicitly not to have the epidural steroid injections.  so i began to complain to him that the pain management guy he sent me to pressured me to have epidural steroid injections.  i asked if they had ever spoken.  neurologist said no.  i said, well the guy lied to me then because he told me that he had talked to you and that you had told him that you recommend the epidurals.  then i showed the neurologist this big lump on my back that the phys. thrp. told me looked like a tumor.  and neurologist poked it, causing lots of pain that lasted for about 48 hrs. and said, it looks like a lipoma, but can’t be sure w/out biopsy.  you should show it to dr. soandso.  what, i said, quite alarmed.  she’s not my doctor.  i haven’t seen her for years.  she is totally incompetent.  why do you mention her? and then the neurologist said, i refuse to be your doctor.  i will not allow you to insult my colleagues and continue to treat you.  get out of my office.

This is really horrifying.    we

ll, come to find out, he has been sending reports about me to this doctor whom i no longer see.  and i pointed out that he has violated law, as in hipaa (or whatever the initials are), that i have signed no releases for him to talk to this doctor, that i told him who my primary care physician is, etc.  and he says, oh, i guess i made a mistake.    i did, then, when i got home, report him to the hsptl that he is associated with and i also called the physicans licensing board and they are sending me a complaint form to fill out.

I think it is good that you are doing this. If this doctor is behaving this outrageously with you, he is probably mistreating others as well, and should be reported. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    but then a friend said to me that i’m probably going to get myself blacklisted as a patientfrom any doctor.    well, what am i supposed to do?  just let these guys do stuff to me that could paralyze me, or worse, the worst, and also let them just say whatever the blankety blank they please to whomever, despite laws and regulations about care and privacy?  that isn’t getting me taken care of anyway.  the lump has been on my back for several years.  it has just suddenly gotten bigger and begun to cause pain.  but the doctor who no longer works for me, the one i referred to as incompetent, was my primary care phys. for several years and she never even looked at my body, never examined anything about my skin or felt my muscles or anything.  a physical in her office was a cbc and a urine test.  i’m not kidding nor exagerating. I wish I could find some way to help.    if i suggest a way for you to help, will you?        forget it.  that’s a rhetorical question.  already you have way too much to deal with.

It is ok with me for you to suggest or ask for anything you want to. I dont know what that may be, so I don’t know if I would do it or not. I’d do it if I could. I wouldn’t be upset with you for asking if I couldn’t. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –            everyone has way too much to deal with.  and i stupidly forgot to build up any sort of family type network, so now i’m just alone in the world with only and occasional tidbit of mock assistance.  i have no energy to do my housework.  i’ve lost hope about being able to return to any sort of work for pay.  and i can hardly ever stop crying unless i’m asleep. I feel very useless in this kind of situation. I am so sorry that you are going through so many serious medical issues. thanks.  but you’ve got too many of your own problems to be investing any energy in being sorry about mine.  just take care of yourself, please.  at least you make a contribution to the world. It is scary and painful and frustrating to have to go through all of this. it’s painful, terrifying, and demoralizing.  everytime i wake from sleep i wonder why.  absolute truth — first thought when my eyes open is, "what? again?  why do i keep living?  what wakes me up?  there’s no reason to be here for me anymore.  all i do is sit and suffer.  and i do it alone."    maybe i’ll be able to get the courage together to do something about it.        don’t worry.  i’m not writing a s**cde note.  it’s just that old, nagging ideation. I’m glad you are able to keep posting here for support. why?  no, really.  that is not a rhetorical question.  why are you glad that i am writing here?  most others seem not interested at all.  you have been attacked for giving me attention.  and the occasional one or another who takes time and effort to respond to me usually says nothing more than the bare minimum of something like gee, that sucks and i hope you feel better.

I’m glad because my perception is that there are people here who support you, and I also think writing is good, and I think reaching out is good. I think especially when you are going through a series of losses as you are, it is good to keep every connection you can, and not add to the losses by withdrawing.    but, i’m not going to feel better, and that is just the fact.    my body is failing me in a serial variety of ways.    the t in whom i placed all of my trust, and who actually did use to help me by advocating for me and by finding resources to help me, turned his back on me last summer when i was mistreated in the hsptl, as did someone whom i considered to be my closest friend at the time.  and then there was that police incident, which did serious bodily damage to me, but about which i’ve been politely told to shut up, here, at asd, and to get over it already.

You have every right to write about whatever you want. If there are people who don’t want to read it, they can skip it. I think several people here supported your right to post what you want. No one who has any ability for empathy or even common sense would tell you to just get over it already. and the police haven’t concluded anything from their "closed" investigation, yet.    plus there is a lot of other crap going on.  i won’t write about it now, because somebody or other will get pissed off, i’m sure, but maybe later. sorry.  it’s more of that disgusting self-pity. I hope you’ll give more details about this when you can. why?  again, i really want to know why?  what is anybody going to do?  i’m just sitting here rotting and all of my stuff is rotting around me, and i tried to hire somebody to help me with getting stuff in order and i haven’t even been able to succeed in that.

Hiring someone for this kind of help can be a pain, and it can take a little while. Hopefully once you get someone, it will be worth it. You may need to interview a few people. so, why?  why would anyone want to hear about it unless there is some vicarious pleasure in knowing about how totally crumby my life is and how terrified and lonely i am as i face all of this.  why, then?  really.  why?

I want to hear about it because I consider you a friend and I think human connection can be helpful it’s not that i don’t appreciate your expressions of concern and care.  i do.    but, well, i also feel that i am a burden upon you, one who is already overburdened in her own life. so, i’m sorry. trill -Nancy

-Nancy

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thank you i am sorry that i cannot visualize my good health.  rather i am fighting hard to ward off many "intrusive thoughts," a term somebody gave me for them, of the end of me in very graphic and terrifying, ugly visualizations that i don’t ask for nor make any trill-conscious deliberate efforts to experience. never in my life have i felt so lost and alone. i keep reaching out and feeling that my reach isn’t far enough — it never touches anything. so… i am sorry. i am sorry to be such a burden to everyone i am sorry that i am unable to take care of myself. i am sorry that i bother the good people of asd with my trifling problems and stupid complaints while so many others here struggle so valiantly.  and i’m sorry for any sadness that i cause anyone to feel by reading what i write and i am sorry that my views and personalities are a source of fear and/or anger for people who write here. i have tried and tried and tried to do good things with my life in all of the places that i’ve taken it, including asd, but i have failed and the whole world seems to be dying and it seems impossible for me to do anything about it.  it seems impossible for me even to do anything about my own body. i tried and tried and tried and tried and tried some more to use the ms dx as a wake-up call and get myself into a positive attitude and have some discipline and be more energetic about reaching out and building community, but i have failed and failed and failed and failed.  you don’t know to whom you write when you address me.         i am a withering, ugly old woman who lives in a filthy mess of an apartment in a slum that is slated for bulldozing by developers who will take it and turn it into a place for rich people to live and the heck with those of us who already inhabit the place because some rich people have noticed that the area is pretty, geographically, surrounded by parkland and creeks and close to a big city with quick, easy, inexpensive access to mass transit. i tried everything i could think of to stop that from happening, but i was only punished for my efforts. the thing i am most successful at doing is making people dislike me. i even succeeded in making my t despise me and do things to hurt me — my t, the person who was paid to care about me and hear me and give me support.  i succeeded in getting him to get angry at me after he told me many times over and over and over again that he thinks that anger is a waste of time and that he doesn’t do it.  but i got him to do it.  and i believe that it must be this internal ugly, stinkingness of me that is rotting my nerves and atrophying my muscles and growing tumors throughout my body, turning me into a more terrifying monster than even before.  who would want to be near me? nobody wants to be around ugliness and pain. like my friend, my ex-friend, told me, i’m "too scary." but no, it is not true that i ever stalked anybody. i did not.  nobody in here, none of us did ever stalk anybody.  no no no no no that isn’t true. we didn’t do it. things get said about a person and then they are believed, but really really really we did never do it and we can’t stop crying to think that somebody thinks that. and we are afraid to live in our neighborhood where we have lived now for 14 yrs.  i thought it was 12, but then i looked at a calendar and counted them up and they are 14 years and we have always walked all around this neighborhood in all the parks and have had two different dogs live with us in those 14 yrs. and walked with each dog in these parks and now we try to sneak around at times that we won’t bump into somebody who thinks that we walk there to stalk somebody but we still ran into the somebody and got very scared very very scared. and bell come out and walk by like sie a stranger and say hi like people do to strangers here in the south and keep on walking with head up in the air until we think sie can’t sie us anymore then everybody else tumble out in a big confusion taking over different parts of body and we fall down on ground and is it d.i.d.or ms don’t know we are on the ground and crying and crying and crying like right now, can’t stop crying and sobbing and fraiding and thinking sie will come back by and see us and we got to get up and get away and it hurst bad and finally we made it by crawling a little bit then got up with help from potato and we better just stay inside and hide because somebody gonna blame us for being the bad one all the time a friend or a t or a doctor or especially the sister of trill and we gonna die and some of us not even get to grwo uup even thoguh we want to sorry sorry sorry thank you for giving us some idea but we don’t know how to dothatl

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – trill, sorry about it, i can understand how difficult and lonely that can feel….. i wish i had the answers and solutions…. lately i talk with someone i know a little bit, she says she is contact with angels – after all why not – i am not short minded ??? in front of my own depression and despair she suggested me to stay on my bed 5 minutes a day, empty my heart of my feelings of pains and distress and visualize myself as healthy as i want to me… she said after all this is free, no need for a doctor, no need for money…. it’s the internal powers: ask them she said… i feel like i have nothing much left… and yet i know others have more pains and difficulties that i have, but why not he? maybe you could give it a try too…. think of that beach and that full moon, visualize yourself healthy and peaceful and smiling…. my best wishes for you from far far away and yet closer than it seems phoenix 2 more tumors found growing in me. tumors, not lesions from the ms, but tumors terrified and self-blaming.  and lonely                             and by myself lonely.                                                             alone. keep having little dream snatches while i’m awake.         even i can see one of them because it protrudes under my skin which puffs out like a golf ball right near where remaining kidney is. the neurologist did a couple of bad things — sent reports to a doctor i stopped seeng years ago because he saw her name on film of earliest mri, but he never got a release from me nor discssed this matter, never asked if there was a doctor  should send reports tool.”i’llmfo sorry fading later trill

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thank you i am sorry that i cannot visualize my good health.  rather i am fighting hard to ward off many "intrusive thoughts," a term somebody gave me for them, of the end of me in very graphic and terrifying, ugly visualizations that i don’t ask for nor make any trill-conscious deliberate efforts to experience.

don’t be sorry, i tried myself and can’t either…. the question is: how could i look really? i can’t think of a picture of me when i was 20 or 30 or even 40; my whole body changed within the last 10 years, maybe i should search for a computer program and put 10 more years on me, and print it, but would *that picture be me??? sometimes it is indeed hard to push away the intrusive thoughts as you said, i always wonder why the heavy hard things from life are so sticky in my head and thoughts, why the lights and nice one are swept away so easily…. it is hard, but yet i do know that the good one exists and are there as much valid and present…. never in my life have i felt so lost and alone.

i sure can relate to that …. i keep reaching out and feeling that my reach isn’t far enough — it never touches anything.

maybe this is also where the problem is, one doctor once told me that i was constantly sitting between two chairs, so i can’t find peace… reaching out to who or what??? there is nothing, nobody out there for me, with me…. somehow i know that i would find some peace if i could really manage to reach in more deeper inside of me, but then it also scares me, where will that bring me ?? anyway, i can tell you that you words touch me… it might not be much help, but it is real, behind those black word on the white screen i am a human being as well…. so… i am sorry. i am sorry to be such a burden to everyone i am sorry that i am unable to take care of myself. i am sorry that i bother the good people of asd with my trifling problems and stupid complaints while so many others here struggle so valiantly. and i’m sorry for any sadness that i cause anyone to feel by reading what i write and i am sorry that my views and personalities are a source of fear and/or anger for people who write here.

i don’t see why you should be sorry, i don’t believe that one person can be the source of fear and/or anger to anybody else at all, it can have some respondance to their own angers and fears, but you aren’t a source of it, just a mirror imho…. there is someone here, he ended up on the streets, i wanted to try to help, he has lots of anger, hatred, ressentment, and he puts it on me, he exhausts me, but regularly i put him in front of himself. it is hard because i am not healthy enough to deal with him, but now he is seeing when he is doing it and he even apologize. i know he isn’t a monster, but i often tell him that this personality so harsh and hard who wants to hurt any thing possible as a revenge of the sufferings he endure, that personality i dislike totally. i never in my life before that said to anyone to shut up, but now i do. i also go away more often. his room is upstairs so that we don’t meet as much. it can be terribly hard and honestly i think he would be better either alone, either within a group of person so that not all his anger would be adressed to me. this is a big issue, and as much as i understand where it comes from, yet i know he has to find his own way in that jungle of hatred…. but he is challenging me a lot and triggering me as well, but i consider that this is my problem, he is only a mirror of feelings i sometimes reject. i have tried and tried and tried to do good things with my life in all of the places that i’ve taken it, including asd, but i have failed and the whole world seems to be dying and it seems impossible for me to do anything about it.  it seems impossible for me even to do anything about my own body.

yes, i know that; i have always tried to do my best, in each situation i decided long ago to take my time and transform the worsts situations in something constructive and alive, but i don’t think that i am failing, either that you are failing, it is a reality that the world is dying, both of us included and we are closer to it than ever…. the events of the world in the news are signs of death also, as if humanity is on the way of dying and losing the game of life….. all this together is scary, and yet, i try to remember in the most peaceful way that because i was born, i am going to die as well, there is an inevitability to it, and to find peace within the death coming closer is probably something with our similar age that we are sharing somehow…. the heavy and painful health issues are maybe bringing us closer to it than otherwise, maybe something is getting too quick in front… i tried and tried and tried and tried and tried some more to use the ms dx as a wake-up call and get myself into a positive attitude and have some discipline and be more energetic about reaching out and building community, but i have failed and failed and failed and failed.

yes, but at least you have tried many times, that is per s

Question:

U.S. officials did not come up with an explanation for the symptoms, which NATO experts tend to believe result from direct exposure to powerful nuclear radiations of the sophisticated B-2 bombs used in the war on Iraq, particularly in striking Iraqi Republican Guards forces who deployed to defend the vicinity of Baghdad airport.

"Powerful nuclear radiations"?

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@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net: "Powerful nuclear radiations"?

"Pig-headed Americans"? — Can I borrow a feeling? http://www.mp3.com/gortician Bass for your anus: http://www.mp3.com/manticore http://www.mp3.com/meterversusyard http://www.mp3.com/highc http://www.mp3.com/measurerecs. "[The artwork of Andrew Penland] is REAL…what I mean by "real" is that it made NEW THOUGHTS occur in my head, which would have never otherwise occurred." –Full Force Frank

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – @newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net: "Powerful nuclear radiations"? "Pig-headed Americans"? — Can I borrow a feeling? http://www.mp3.com/gortician Bass for your anus: http://www.mp3.com/manticore http://www.mp3.com/meterversusyard http://www.mp3.com/highc http://www.mp3.com/measurerecs. "[The artwork of Andrew Penland] is REAL…what I mean by "real" is that it made NEW THOUGHTS occur in my head, which would have never otherwise occurred." –Full Force Frank

Well, thanks for sharing the fact that you really had nothing to say.

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@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – $Mc.707649 @newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net: "Powerful nuclear radiations"? "Pig-headed Americans"? — Can I borrow a feeling? http://www.mp3.com/gortician Bass for your anus: http://www.mp3.com/manticore http://www.mp3.com/meterversusyard http://www.mp3.com/highc http://www.mp3.com/measurerecs. "[The artwork of Andrew Penland] is REAL…what I mean by "real" is that it made NEW THOUGHTS occur in my head, which would have never otherwise occurred." –Full Force Frank Well, thanks for sharing the fact that you really had nothing to say.

Ditto, fuckhead… — Can I borrow a feeling? http://www.mp3.com/gortician Bass for your anus: http://www.mp3.com/manticore http://www.mp3.com/meterversusyard http://www.mp3.com/highc http://www.mp3.com/measurerecs. "[The artwork of Andrew Penland] is REAL…what I mean by "real" is that it made NEW THOUGHTS occur in my head, which would have never otherwise occurred." –Full Force Frank

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Afghanistan is now irradiated. Iraq has long since been irradiated. These muslim countries will be no more in 20 years. Nothing left but oil and mutants. The rest of the world keeps smoking radioactive tobacco supplied by America…

What, everyone shut up quick. What’s up with that? — Can I borrow a feeling? http://www.mp3.com/gortician Bass for your anus: http://www.mp3.com/manticore http://www.mp3.com/meterversusyard http://www.mp3.com/highc http://www.mp3.com/measurerecs. "[The artwork of Andrew Penland] is REAL…what I mean by "real" is that it made NEW THOUGHTS occur in my head, which would have never otherwise occurred." –Full Force Frank

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Afghanistan is now irradiated. Iraq has long since been irradiated. These muslim countries will be no more in 20 years. Nothing left but oil and mutants. The rest of the world keeps smoking radioactive tobacco supplied by America… Oops, and poisoning our own troops, too… Ooo—weee—ooo. Here in the Twilight…twilight…twilight zone. Cheerio, Dennis, Proud American Conservative, Irish http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?witharticle=1 &comments_maxComments=50&Submit=%CE%F2%EF%F0%E0%E2%E8%F2%FC&articleId= 12102&sesid=181095fbfaa528f382ded34944a83537&lang=ru Mysterious Diseases Haunt U.S. Troops In Iraq 18.07.2003 [01:32] BAGHDAD, July 17 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies)

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here in the uk it was all a bit more simple… 1. See the doctor for your outpatients appointment 2. Go get bloods taken – tell the phleb what time you took your last dose 3 Go home –  if there’s a problem you get a phone call "Larry Krzewinski" <Feerless_Fr…@madmagazine.com> wrote in message

news:b91nhvg1rehs1l908f444be8p30ouljmpg@4ax.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:58:05 -0500, "Jim Perry" > <bandmanC…@softhome.net> wrote: > >> have your blood draws within 30 minutes either way of the prescribed > >> time.  In other words if you take your dose of Neoral at 9 PM you want > >> to have your blood drawn between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM the next day in > >> order to get an accurate result.  If you can’t do that you need to > >> advise your doctor when the blood draw occurred so he can compensate > >> for the time difference. > >I guess our clinic spoils us. Before each blood draw, we are asked what we > >are taking, then the time of the last dose. They let the computer do the > >adjusting and figuring. > >Jim > A lot of folks aren’t as lucky as that, Jim, and some have actually > lost their kidneys as a result.  I make a point of telling the doctor > of anything out of the ordinary that has occurred on my part so they > know exactly what they are dealing with. > Larry > Reply to larrykz at charter dot net.

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> have your blood draws within 30 minutes either way of the prescribed > time.  In other words if you take your dose of Neoral at 9 PM you want > to have your blood drawn between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM the next day in > order to get an accurate result.  If you can’t do that you need to > advise your doctor when the blood draw occurred so he can compensate > for the time difference.

I guess our clinic spoils us. Before each blood draw, we are asked what we are taking, then the time of the last dose. They let the computer do the adjusting and figuring. Jim

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 21:58:05 -0500, "Jim Perry" <bandmanC…@softhome.net> wrote: >> have your blood draws within 30 minutes either way of the prescribed >> time.  In other words if you take your dose of Neoral at 9 PM you want >> to have your blood drawn between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM the next day in >> order to get an accurate result.  If you can’t do that you need to >> advise your doctor when the blood draw occurred so he can compensate >> for the time difference. >I guess our clinic spoils us. Before each blood draw, we are asked what we >are taking, then the time of the last dose. They let the computer do the >adjusting and figuring. >Jim

A lot of folks aren’t as lucky as that, Jim, and some have actually lost their kidneys as a result.  I make a point of telling the doctor of anything out of the ordinary that has occurred on my part so they know exactly what they are dealing with. Larry Reply to larrykz at charter dot net.

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 18:26:55 GMT, "PV" <phili…@hotmail.com> wrote: >The only immunosuppressant which I am taking at the moment is Neoral >Cyclosporine.  I was told that this drug could be toxic to the kidney, which >is why they monitor the blood level.   I have had my transplanted kidney >(from my little brother) for over 8 years. >Any comments on Neoral? >Thanks, >Philip

All of the primary immunosuppressant drugs used in organ transplant are nephrotoxic and as a result you need to have blood drawn and tested for serum trough levels on a regular basis.  If you follow the directions given you and take both your medication on time and have your blood drawn on time you should be fine.  Some people make the mistake of being hours late with their blood draws and consequently the doctor sees a lower level than the prescribed therapeutic range and increases your dosage which can damage or even eventually ruin your new kidney.  If you don’t take the prescribed dose your serum cyclosporine level will be too low which can result in the rejection of your kidney.  You can be an hour early or late taking your prescribed dose without damaging your kidney but you should try and have your blood draws within 30 minutes either way of the prescribed time.  In other words if you take your dose of Neoral at 9 PM you want to have your blood drawn between 8:30 AM and 9:30 AM the next day in order to get an accurate result.  If you can’t do that you need to advise your doctor when the blood draw occurred so he can compensate for the time difference. Larry Reply to larrykz at charter dot net.

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The only immunosuppressant which I am taking at the moment is Neoral Cyclosporine.  I was told that this drug could be toxic to the kidney, which is why they monitor the blood level.   I have had my transplanted kidney (from my little brother) for over 8 years. Any comments on Neoral? Thanks, Philip "Richard Archer" <mrrichardarc…@nospam.com> wrote in message

news:beem0q$st$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi Peter, > Having just had my own transplant kidney fail after 13 years I can answer > your questions based on what happened to me, my experience may not be > typical, but then again it may not be too rare either… > Having not had a biopsy I can’t tell you for sure why my kidney failed, but > the doctors suspect a combination of high blood pressure, very slow chronic > rejection and the damage caused by immunosuppresants, and possibly nephritis > (my original problem) > Because the kidney is not causing me a problem in terms of rejection or pain > we agreed to leave the graft in place – this is a benefit as it still > produces some urine, however the more hemodialysis I do the less urine I > produce. > Retaining the kidney also means that the transplant drugs are not stopped > suddenly, the Azathiprine was stopped within a couple of weeks of starting > Dialysis, however its now 4 months since I started > dialysing and I’m still taking half my neoral dose (I wasn’t taking > steroids) > My fistula was still intact, so restarting dialysis was physically simple > enough. > Hope this helps > Richard > "Peter Sommerfeld" <petersommerf…@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:5c4d983.0307071323.4a932b2@posting.google.com… > > What are the major reasons transplants fail? Not neccesarily those > > that fail within 3 months, but those that fail after, say 8 years? > > Is it mostly because of attacks from the immune systems? Infection? Do > > they develop the disease that affected the original damaged kidneys? > > What happens when the transplant fails? Is it removed? Are the > > original damaged kidneys of any use after such a long time? It is more > > involved than going back on dialysis. > > Thanks for your time.

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What are the major reasons transplants fail? Not neccesarily those that fail within 3 months, but those that fail after, say 8 years? Is it mostly because of attacks from the immune systems? Infection? Do they develop the disease that affected the original damaged kidneys? What happens when the transplant fails? Is it removed? Are the original damaged kidneys of any use after such a long time? It is more involved than going back on dialysis. Thanks for your time.

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Hi Peter, Having just had my own transplant kidney fail after 13 years I can answer your questions based on what happened to me, my experience may not be typical, but then again it may not be too rare either… Having not had a biopsy I can’t tell you for sure why my kidney failed, but the doctors suspect a combination of high blood pressure, very slow chronic rejection and the damage caused by immunosuppresants, and possibly nephritis (my original problem) Because the kidney is not causing me a problem in terms of rejection or pain we agreed to leave the graft in place – this is a benefit as it still produces some urine, however the more hemodialysis I do the less urine I produce. Retaining the kidney also means that the transplant drugs are not stopped suddenly, the Azathiprine was stopped within a couple of weeks of starting Dialysis, however its now 4 months since I started dialysing and I’m still taking half my neoral dose (I wasn’t taking steroids) My fistula was still intact, so restarting dialysis was physically simple enough. Hope this helps Richard "Peter Sommerfeld" <petersommerf…@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:5c4d983.0307071323.4a932b2@posting.google.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> What are the major reasons transplants fail? Not neccesarily those > that fail within 3 months, but those that fail after, say 8 years? > Is it mostly because of attacks from the immune systems? Infection? Do > they develop the disease that affected the original damaged kidneys? > What happens when the transplant fails? Is it removed? Are the > original damaged kidneys of any use after such a long time? It is more > involved than going back on dialysis. > Thanks for your time.

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petersommerf…@hotmail.com (Peter Sommerfeld) wrote in message <news:5c4d983.0307071323.4a932b2@posting.google.com>… > What are the major reasons transplants fail? Not neccesarily those > that fail within 3 months, but those that fail after, say 8 years? > Is it mostly because of attacks from the immune systems? Infection? Do > they develop the disease that affected the original damaged kidneys? > What happens when the transplant fails? Is it removed? Are the > original damaged kidneys of any use after such a long time? It is more > involved than going back on dialysis. > Thanks for your time.

the principal reason are infections

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Point to progress in preventing organ rejection By Adam Marcus HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDayNews) — Something old and something new could help doctors better predict which kidney transplant patients are most likely to reject their new organs — and perhaps lead to genetically tailored ways of preventing rejection in those at high risk of the reaction. What’s old is a souped-up version of ultrasound, which shows that stifled blood flow to the kidneys raises the odds of rejection. What’s new are computer chips that detect differences in gene activity linked to the severity of a patient’s immune response to the donor organ. Last year, a record 14,769 kidney transplants were performed in the United States, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Although advances in drugs to suppress the immune system have driven down rejection rates for kidney grafts — 10 percent versus 30 percent a decade ago — transplant failure remains a significant hurdle for patients. Failure is now the fourth leading cause of end-stage kidney disease in this country. Doctors have therefore been looking for better ways to improve the odds that transplant recipients will keep their new organs as long as possible and with the fewest hardships. To that end, two studies appear in the July 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In one, German researchers showed that using a modern twist on conventional ultrasound to measure blood flow in a transplanted organ can accurately predict which is most likely to fail in the short term. Patients whose flow was most restricted three months after surgery — the result of a blocked or kinked renal artery — were nine times more likely than those with freer flow to suffer a serious rejection or die. The average survival after surgery was 2.5 years in the group with restricted blood flow to the organ, but 23 years for patients with low resistance. "Prior to this study it wasn’t appreciated that this commonly used tool could predict outcomes," says Dr. Philip Marsden, a kidney specialist at the University of Toronto. "Now we recognize that [blood] flow within the kidney is telling us something about how the graft will do in the years ahead." In the second study, researchers at Stanford University in California used "gene chip" technology to analyze the activity of more than 12,400 genes in the kidney cells of childhood transplant patients. Gene chips are glass or plastic slides that can read genes in a tissue sample and determine which are more or less prominent, providing in the process genetic "signatures" for certain cell types, such as highly aggressive tumors. The chip found clear patterns in grafts that were healthy and those that were troubled, giving a genetic picture of the risk of organ rejection and response to anti-rejection steroid therapy. A group of 1,340 genes appeared to be most closely related to rejection. The analysis revealed at least three genetically distinct forms of rejection, based on the nature of the patients’ immune cells. These differences weren’t visible under a light microscope, the conventional way of examining kidney biopsies. A closer look at these forms found that people with particularly high numbers of immune system B cells in their kidney tissue had a strong risk of severe organ rejection and failure. "We’re pretty excited by what could be the potential practical implications" of the study, says Dr. Minnie Sarwal, a Stanford pediatrician and kidney expert who led the research. "You could actually differentiate which rejection episodes may be the ones with the worst outcomes, which we currently can’t do." B cells had been thought to be mere bystanders in the immune response to an organ transplant, but Sarwal’s study changes that view. The immune system "uses these B cells to turbo-charge the T cells [that attack the graft] and makes the rejection response very malignant," she says. Ironically, the success of immune-suppressing drugs makes it possible for B cells to be so potent, she adds. Marsden, author of an editorial accompanying the journal articles, says neither study holds all the answers to the problem of transplant rejection. The German research gives doctors a fairly simple tool to predict severe rejection, but it offers nothing to stop it from occurring. The California study shows gene profiles can sort patients into groups with varying degrees of rejection risk and by their response to anti-rejection drugs. But gene chip analysis isn’t currently available to most doctors or patients, nor is the function of all the genes in the kidney cells understood. Still, gene chips hold the promise of leading to customized therapies to prevent organ rejection. As the new study suggests, Marsden says, one of these might involve targeting B cells in certain patients. More information Try the United Network for Organ Sharing or the National Kidney Foundation. — ~LadySyc~ "Your ‘right’ doesn’t make me ‘wrong’" Mr. T.Jones Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD. re-87 "There is no reality, just perception." Dr. Phil

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?  She went through 31 radiation treatments and 6 chemo treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin with no obvious side effects except for shrinkage (and tons of pain) of her esophagus making a g-tube necessary.  Two months after her initial treatments she started on very high doses of Carboplatin and Taxol that now, after just two treatments, has totally taken all her hair. She has only one more treatment before she goes on a 3 month hiatus.  If someone who knows the answer to this problem please post it. (Jack)ie Hi (Jack)ie, stage 3b lung cancer.  Her staging is t4 n3 m0 , right? Anyhow, based on what I’ve read on the breast cancer and lupus newsgroup, the hair first grows back as peachfuzz. She might have a full head of hair by the 3-month mark (maybe a month or so earlier). If it’s a concern, perhaps she’ll want to invest in a quality wig. JMO Best wishes, J

J: How do I do  TNN staging?  I think that after 2 years of stage four CC I ought to able to do that. Chip Bishop

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?  She went through 31 radiation treatments and 6 chemo treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin with no obvious side effects except for shrinkage (and tons of pain) of her esophagus making a g-tube necessary.  Two months after her initial treatments she started on very high doses of Carboplatin and Taxol that now, after just two treatments, has totally taken all her hair.  She has only one more treatment before she goes on a 3 month hiatus.  If someone who knows the answer to this problem please post it.  PLEASE, no urine therapies or alien technologies.    Thanks ! (Jack)ie

Hi Jackie I lost all my hair after two treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin.  After the final treatment (5), my hair didn’t start to grow back for about 1 month, and then it was only fluff really. My eyelashes and brows started to come back first.   Proper hair started to grow after about 2 months, and I had a little trim as it was growing unevenly after 3 months.  My hair now (8 months on) is still very short, but it is a definite hairstyle, and I feel no need to cover my head.  I reckon about a year before you can say your hair is normal again, but people vary.  They say hair grows half an inch a month, I believe. Your friend’s hair may also be different to what it was before, mine is thicker, and a different colour.  I quite like it actually. All the very best Eve

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How do I do  TNN staging?  I think that after 2 years of stage four CC I ought to able to do that.

Hi Chip, Just for the record, I didn’t stage (Jack)ie’s friend. It was in another (what I believe was one) of his previous posts, so I was just re-confirming, by asking. the question. Think I’ll post separately because we’re in a hair loss thread, ok? J

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   I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?

<snip Anyhow, based on what I’ve read on the breast cancer and lupus newsgroup, the hair first grows back as peachfuzz. She might have a full head of hair by the 3-month mark (maybe a month or so earlier).

My mother got peachfuzz within a month of her last chemo session, and had a pretty good head of hair in 2-3 months as well.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –    I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?  She went through 31 radiation treatments and 6 chemo treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin with no obvious side effects except for shrinkage (and tons of pain) of her esophagus making a g-tube necessary.  Two months after her initial treatments she started on very high doses of Carboplatin and Taxol that now, after just two treatments, has totally taken all her hair. She has only one more treatment before she goes on a 3 month hiatus.  If someone who knows the answer to this problem please post it.  PLEASE, no urine therapies or alien technologies.    Thanks ! (Jack)ie Hi Jackie I lost all my hair after two treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin.  After the final treatment (5), my hair didn’t start to grow back for about 1 month, and then it was only fluff really. My eyelashes and brows started to come back first.   Proper hair started to grow after about 2 months, and I had a little trim as it was growing unevenly after 3 months.  My hair now (8 months on) is still very short, but it is a definite hairstyle, and I feel no need to cover my head.  I reckon about a year before you can say your hair is normal again, but people vary.  They say hair grows half an inch a month, I believe. Your friend’s hair may also be different to what it was before, mine is thicker, and a different colour.  I quite like it actually. All the very best Eve

   I am hoping that she gets the chance to see her new hair come in.  Since my last post she was admitted into the hospital after a visit to the medical oncology clinic.  At the clinic, where she was to have blood drawn, they found that she had a high temperature and admitted her into the hospital. This morning after a cat scan her medical oncologist said that there are apparent tumors on her liver and left kidney.  For some reason he told her that neither was a candidate for surgery nor biospy.  I can not understand why she couldn’t have a biospy on either one or why surgery would be ruled out so soon.  She is suppose to be discharged from the hospital later today and have a follow up in the medical oncology clinic Tuesday.  I suppose they will discus further options.  I have been very skeptical about her doctors and the way they have approached her cancer from the very beginning.  Today they told her that a cat scan done last October showed a small spot on her liver and that the recent scan has showed that it has grown, yet they never told her of this and did not do anything at that time to ascertain whether that spot was indeed a met from her lung cancer or anything else.  When she asked the medical oncologist this morning about this he only replied that they were following traditional treatment for her cancer.  I believe that he must have made very good grades in that "101" class that I discussed with Steph a while back. (Jack)ie

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   I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?  She went through 31 radiation treatments and 6 chemo treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin with no obvious side effects except for shrinkage (and tons of pain) of her esophagus making a g-tube necessary.  Two months after her initial treatments she started on very high doses of Carboplatin and Taxol that now, after just two treatments, has totally taken all her hair.  She has only one more treatment before she goes on a 3 month hiatus.  If someone who knows the answer to this problem please post it. (Jack)ie

Hi (Jack)ie, stage 3b lung cancer.  Her staging is t4 n3 m0 , right? Anyhow, based on what I’ve read on the breast cancer and lupus newsgroup, the hair first grows back as peachfuzz. She might have a full head of hair by the 3-month mark (maybe a month or so earlier). If it’s a concern, perhaps she’ll want to invest in a quality wig. JMO Best wishes, J

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   I have posted before concerning my girlfriend and her bout with lung cancer.  My question is, does anyone know how long it usually takes for one to recover their hair loss after their last chemo treatment?  She went through 31 radiation treatments and 6 chemo treatments with Taxol and Carboplatin with no obvious side effects except for shrinkage (and tons of pain) of her esophagus making a g-tube necessary.  Two months after her initial treatments she started on very high doses of Carboplatin and Taxol that now, after just two treatments, has totally taken all her hair.  She has only one more treatment before she goes on a 3 month hiatus.  If someone who knows the answer to this problem please post it.  PLEASE, no urine therapies or alien technologies.    Thanks ! (Jack)ie

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