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To: Ben Wa who wrote (130)	1/31/2000 9:59:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 226

IMHO, if the American Cancer Society is thriving, it is because you have to die of something. If you don't die of infections disease, or an occupational hazard, or malnutrition, then you will live a long life, and cancer is mainly a disease of the aged. That said, your point about environmental factors is a good one--when I attended the informed investors forum here in Seattle a couple months ago, the director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center said very plainly at the beginning of the presentations, that mainly you want to just prevent cancer. So, lots of those green leafy veggies, don't smoke, cut the fats from the diet etc. I've also seen that BBQ-ed meat has carcinogens, so probably want to broil meat rather than have the flames burning that steak. Green tea is supposed to be full of things that help prevent cancer--flavenoids or something. I think it would be fair to say, that for those unfortunate souls who get cancer because they live badly, or are just unlucky, or live downwind of a radiation source, etc--they will most certainly spend their last cent trying to be cured. My guess is that right now the companies which make chemo agents, ughh, are raking it in--in the future I think we are likely to see more elegant approaches, and they're likely to be very profitable as well. When I set up the thread, it was not to make any statment about why folks get cancer, or what the ACS is all about, I mainly just like stocks that go up. Not much cancer in my family--Grandma had lymphoma, but was cured and lived another 20 years, died of old age. My two best picks right now in biotech are GZMO, and TGEN--neither is a pure play on 'cancer cures' however-- the former is also a play on genomics, see SAGE on that thread, and the latter has three platforms, one is AAV gene therapy for CF, one gene therapy of a tumor suppressor gene, and also early work on CTL replication and AIDS which I don't know a thing about. Recnent thoughts on TGEN are here: messages.yahoo.com and also see the two posts which preceed that one. Hold the Mayo--are you a nutritionist? Dang, I love Mayo, mayo and tomato sandwich, the best.