About a So-called Success Story
Jadunath Mukhopadhaya
The so called success
story can be easily rejected as a mere trash, if you read between the
lines of the above report itself. Dopamine, which they applied for
inhibiting the growth of lab-grown, transplanted mice cancer will be a
total failure when applied to inhibit or destroy naturally evolved human
cancer. Human cancers are not lab-grown, it evolves from the tissues of
its carriers, thus cancer is an integral and inseparable part of its
carriers.
And what is Dopamine? It is a catecholamine
synthesized by the adrenal gland and intermediate product in the
synthesis of norepinephrine. It acts to increase the blood pressure,
specially systolic blood pressure and acts as a neuro-transmitter in the
nervous system. It is but natural then, if Dopamine is applied to a
cancer patient who is otherwise at peace with cancer, serious side
effects will make his life hell.
Jadunath Mukhopadhaya
A
carrot of promises are now dangling before the hopeful mankind: Cancer
cure is not far away. On 6 January, Anand Bazar Patrika reported a 'success'
story of four Bengali researchers, who claimed that very cheap cure of
cancer is at our doorstep. Their paper recently published in the
'International Journal of Cancer' claimed that they have successfully
arrested the growth of mice cancer by injecting Dopamine. But if you
read between the lines of the reported success story, you will be
astonished to know that Dopamine has not undergone any human trial yet.
It will take not less than 5 years to know its effect on naturally
evolved human cancer. Why so much hurry then to propagate Bengali
re-searchers(!) so called success story?
Cancer researchers
world over have tried to attack and abolish the blood vessel going to a
cancer, but miserably failed repeatedly. Unable to attack the blood
vessels of a cancer directly, they tried to attack some basic factors
that help blood vessels to grow in a cancer. In medical parlance it is
called Tumor Angiogenesis Factors (TAF). By suppressing TAF, it was said:
we can abolish the supply line in a cancer, thus an eventual death of
cancer due to starvation will be the net outcome. But cancer proved to
be more tougher than the TAF-experiment.
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