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

To: geoffrey Wren who wrote (48)	12/5/2012 4:08:52 PM
From: nothingoutofbounds	1 Recommendation Respond to of 178

Funny thing about the medical field is that, even among M.D.'s there can be folk wisdom that is not based on reality. My understanding is that cutting on cancer does not cause it to spread. GW Honestly, I am not qualified to say what is correct. I know what I was told and when I researched it at the time, it seemed to me that there was evidence supporting my oncologist. I just typed “biopsy spread cancer” in both Google and Yahoo search engines and there are many articles supporting that biopsies do indeed increase the likelihood of cancer metastasizing. I added “Sloan Kettering” to the search and found some other articles. Some pretty well respected doctors and studies cited stating that it is in fact true. I know that if I had to go thru the same ordeal, I would not allow a biopsy and I would do everything in my power to be treated with BSD’s equipment. If that is a logical, who knows... Also it is my understanding that in most cases once cancer is detected there little utility in rushing to treat it. Most likely once it is of a size to be noticed, it has been there many years. Either it has already metastasized or not, depending on whether it is the type of cancer to metastasize. GW I think this is correct to an extent and inline with how it was explained to me. I think it was about a year from diagnosis to surgery and the only person that was in a hurry was me. They kept telling me the only things that can come from moving quickly are mistakes. However, I am a rather tough mentally and physically and I can say that it was especially draining emotionally. I cannot imagine how heavy a toll it has to take on people that are not as equipped to handle stress. That has to be accounted for and I am confident that patients given the choice will choose to be treated quickly... especially considering that the BSD equipment has proven to do no/minimal harm combined with increased efficacy. But quick treatment does help the patient's morale probably, even if it does not improve outcome. Still one should not rush to a treatment plan. GW I agree with the morale, as stated above. However, I think if you have something that you know is the best treatment and it will not make anything worse anywhere else in the body it is probably a good idea to rush. Almost like looking at a flat tire on your car... You would fix the tire, there might be a problem somewhere else in the car... But you know the tire is flat so you would fix it immediately. I know this is oversimplified, but it is my belief that BSD treatment should be the treatment plan much like a new tire is the treatment for a flat. But you still have the status quo where any time a surgeon can get in easily enough and take out an organ or a chunk of flesh, tissue, or bone with the whole tumor in it, they will continue to do so. So you will have professional inertia (conservatism) working against BSDM, not to mention professional self-interest (how they get their money) working against eager acceptance of BSDM's tumor ablation equipment. But if it really works, at some point the dam will burst. Maybe BSDM should advertise on television so that cancer patients will ask their doctors about the treatment. GW I totally agree... This is why I do not recommend the stock to people. I have already been in this for years. I have told several close friends and family and some of them are invested, but they have been made aware of the fact that this may take many years. I know they have the best product. I know it is a huge market. I just do not know when the market will be ready for the best product... Hopefully, I am still around when that day comes.

To: geoffrey Wren who wrote (48)	12/6/2012 12:19:20 PM
From: pleonastic	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 178

>I suppose BSDM equipment could be good for treatment of most bone cancers. It might work on breast tumors.< Again, precision heating with microwave energy is a very widely applicable cancer therapy – both for direct ablation (“killing”) of tumors and as a powerful adjuvant for surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy (and it is safer than these three established modalities). Breast cancer is just of many types that are very suitable for heat treatments – and microwave heating is the outstanding approach. Proof for this has reached very impressive levels, and practice is burgeoning (on a percentage increase basis. Regarding breast cancer specifically, a Google search for {breast "BSD Medical"} returned 140,000 hits! Here is one of them (a news release by BSD Medical): http://investor.bsdmedical.com/press-release/clinical-trials-and-research/bsd-medical-reports-publication-special-edition-internati (clip) <Van Der Zee, et al. (Reirradiation combined with hyperthermia in breast cancer recurrences: Overview of experience in Erasmus MC) reviewed 21 published clinical studies on 974 patients who had recurrent breast cancer after previous irradiation who were treated with hyperthermia and radiotherapy. The rate of complete response following reirradiation and hyperthermia for these patients was 61%, as compared to only 32% after radiotherapy alone. The researchers also reviewed their clinical experience in treating patients who had recurrent breast cancer after previous irradiation. The researchers stated that “In 74% of our patients with recurrent breast cancer treated with a reirradiation scheme of 8 fractions of 4 Gy in 4 weeks, combined with 4 or 8 hyperthermia treatments, a complete response is achieved, approximately twice as high as the CR rate following the same reirradiation alone. The CR rate in tumours smaller than 30mm is 80–90%, for larger tumours it is 65%. Hyperthermia appears beneficial for patients with microscopic residual tumour as well.”> There are links at the company’s website to many successful trials for many cancers. Why not? – high temperatures are lethal to essentially all biological material – and tumors often are even more susceptible (poor cooling from poor blood circulation, for example). Microwave cancer therapy is a GENERAL method – applicable, in one way or another, to virtually all cancers (perhaps actually all): http://investor.bsdmedical.com/press_releases/clinical_trials_and_research Aside from some decades-ago poorly conceived/executed trials, I have seen nothing but successful and impressive results for microwave-heating therapy for cancer. Further, this has always been expectable, on theoretical grounds. However, developing and introducing a “sea change” medical therapy is predictably a difficult, long-term process. BSD Medical has done it! Now, it is clearly predictable that the company will very likely see massive growth. Time to widespread adoption of these advances is anyone’s guess, but it is now happening fast (on a percentage basis). Today’s news is typical of what can be expected – frequently. >But you still have the status quo where any time a surgeon can get in easily enough and take out an organ or a chunk of flesh, tissue, or bone with the whole tumor in it, they will continue to do so. So you will have professional inertia (conservatism) working against BSDM, not to mention professional self-interest (how they get their money) working against eager acceptance of BSDM's tumor ablation equipment. But if it really works, at some point the dam will burst. < Yes -- but, today you have heard another loud, ominous crack in that dam!