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Biotech / Medical : BSD Medical (Long Term Investment Oriented) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pleonastic who wrote (46)	12/5/2012 12:23:12 PM
From: nothingoutofbounds	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 178

That reminds me of a conversation I overheard long ago at, I believe, a microwave hazards conference. The person speaking was a surgeon and he was discussing his experience with cancer surgery. He grew pretty emotional – visibly pained by what he was recalling. He described a situation – not rare, if I understood him accurately – where parts of the exposed cancer lay around in small pieces in the open wound of the surgery. These were, he said, difficult to reliably remove. And, he posed, how could there be certainty about full removal? Even microscopic pieces could seed metastases. Better: killing the tumor in place avoids the physical disturbance from surgery, and is thus much safer re spreading the disease. Relatedly, RF and microwave “knifes” are now used by surgeons during tumor removal, to zap such – uh, wayward -- pieces of tumors. - pleonastic That is very similar to the conversations I had. Pretty much told that biopsy could and almost surely would allow the cancer to spread. Going from memory, he said that if one cancerous cell escaped then the cancer would metastasize where ever that cell ended up. It was emphasized (maybe too much) that when he went in for the actually surgery, it was possible that the cancer would spread. I was well aware that good bone was going to be removed to try and get the tumor out without actually touching the tumor itself. Then I had to go thru quite a few tests for probably almost a year after the surgery before he was convinced that everything was good. I asked during my visits about BSD products, he pretty much said that I was going to be dead before they would be available(mind you this was some time ago now and they thought that my cancer had already metastasized to several other places). He was/is the best oncologist in the midwest (this is my opinion, many others as well) and did his training at Sloan Kettering... All of that and with every visit I felt like I was visiting a shrink instead of a renowned oncologist that was more pained by my prospects than I was. I can only guess that this is because he sees it, watches people die despite his best efforts. There is a better way, BSD has that better way and all we can really do is wait for it. If BSD fails, it will not be because of the equipment... It is always difficult to get people to understand how incredible the equipment is because the “investment” community in general is so enamored with quick scores and fails to understand what they are investing in.