The Cancer Treatment Revolution

By Laura Knoy on Monday, April 30, 2007.

Far more people today are surviving cancer than even a decade or two ago when a diagnosis meant a death sentence. Modern surgical techniques, new smart drugs and treatments and radiation therapy are combining to give new hope to the millions of cancer patients in the world today. A new book by world-renowned doctor and blood disease researcher Dr. David Nathan looks at both the scientific and human aspects of the war against cancer and what it means to have and fight cancer in the 21st century.

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  • Dr. David Nathan, Former head of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, teacher at Harvard Medical School and author of "The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other New Therapies are Renewing Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine".
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There are encouraging
vanzandtj - Tue, 05/01/2007 - 19:56

There are encouraging reports of treatment of cancer with Dichloroacetic acid (DCA) and Tetrathiomolybdate (TM). However, both of these drugs are inexpensive and none of the drug companies appear willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in formal tests. What is your opinion of these treatments and the prospects for getting formal tests of these and similar "orphan treatments"?