What will Patel be presenting at ASCO? dodge found this link....My question is, Why didn't Ruby make a run with this story?
There's a type of brain cancer that's always been an automatic
death sentence. It's called a malignant glioma and can kill a
patient in months. Now a breakthrough treatment uses a little
cellular trickery to kill the cancer cells.
Nellie Coats is a living case of medical history. She's been
cured of a brain cancer that has never been cured before.
How'd it happen? Dr. Sunil Patel and other researchers at the
Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, poisoned the cancer's food supply.
Malignant gliomas feast on a protein called transferrin. So
doctors attached a poison similar to diphtheria to that food and
delivered it to the tumor. "But the cell does not know that we've
attached a toxin onto this transferrin, so that when it takes this
transferrin into the cell, the toxin kills it," says Dr. Patel.
Doctors feed the mixture through a tube into Diane Sammon's
brain tumor, where she hopes the cancer will gobble it up and
die. "You're impressed. You hope that it happens to you," says Diane.
It's happened to others. Of 21 patients treated, seven had tumors either disappear or stop growing. The results were so surprising, Dr. Patel had to re-check his findings. "I did all of
those things for 15 minutes, and then had to sit back and accept the fact that this drug worked," he says.
Now, Nellie cheers other patients on, telling them how it feels
to be free of the cancer and walk in the sun again.
The poison doesn't affect healthy cells -- just the cancer. This
treatment is likely to be tested for about two more years before
possibly receiving FDA approval.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Sunil Patel, M.D.
Department of Neurological Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
171 Ashley Ave. Room 428 CSB
Charleston, SC 29425
(803) 792-2423
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