Flower Power?......Crocuses vs Cancer

coloCan
coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
edited September 2011 in Colorectal Cancer #1
http://blog.pharmtech.com/2011/09/19/of-crocuses-and-cancer/

and click on link therein to Univ of Bradford press release (www.brad.ac.uk/mediacenter/press-releases/title-54781-en.php

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  • laurettas
    laurettas Member Posts: 372
    #2
    WOW
    and wow again! Anyone know how long it takes to get from the point this research is at to stage 3 clinical trials?
  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    #3
    laurettas said:

    WOW
    and wow again! Anyone know how long it takes to get from the point this research is at to stage 3 clinical trials?

    The hospital where I get my
    The hospital where I get my chemo. is doing clinical trials right now with something called vincristine , it's based on periwinkle plants. Vincristine (brand name, Oncovin), formally known as leurocristine, sometimes abbreviated "VCR", is a vinca alkaloid from the Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), formerly Vinca rosea and hence its name. It is a mitotic inhibitor, and is used in cancer chemotherapy. Apparently they're trying this for colon cancer and the nurses in infusion room said they're having some good results with this, but it looks like it has same side effects as Folfiri.
  • laurettas
    laurettas Member Posts: 372
    #4
    smokeyjoe said:

    The hospital where I get my
    The hospital where I get my chemo. is doing clinical trials right now with something called vincristine , it's based on periwinkle plants. Vincristine (brand name, Oncovin), formally known as leurocristine, sometimes abbreviated "VCR", is a vinca alkaloid from the Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle), formerly Vinca rosea and hence its name. It is a mitotic inhibitor, and is used in cancer chemotherapy. Apparently they're trying this for colon cancer and the nurses in infusion room said they're having some good results with this, but it looks like it has same side effects as Folfiri.

    Know that one
    Vincristine is an older drug. My husband took that in 1977 when he had Hodgkin's disease. The one possible side effect from it that I remember is neuropathy.
  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    #5
    laurettas said:

    Know that one
    Vincristine is an older drug. My husband took that in 1977 when he had Hodgkin's disease. The one possible side effect from it that I remember is neuropathy.

    Yeah, it's been used for
    Yeah, it's been used for different cancers .... wonder why they're just now running clinical trials for colon cancer...seems odd.
  • laurettas
    laurettas Member Posts: 372
    #6
    smokeyjoe said:

    Yeah, it's been used for
    Yeah, it's been used for different cancers .... wonder why they're just now running clinical trials for colon cancer...seems odd.

    Who knows, huh?
    One has to wonder about the reasoning for a lot of the things that they do. I'm still praying for a truly helpful treatment for cancer--one that destroys the beast without destroying the person at the same time. I hate seeing and hearing about all of the awful side effects from these drugs.
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #7
    Steve
    May we all live long enough to see this "blossom" into "fruitation"
    Looking forward to this.
    Winter Marie
  • coloCan
    coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
    #8
    herdizziness said:

    Steve
    May we all live long enough to see this "blossom" into "fruitation"
    Looking forward to this.
    Winter Marie

    watch some lab somewhere devise a "cure" from cockeroach
    legs, a bunch of millionaires/billionaires patent and market it and two years later there's a "shortage" declared, while our apartments are inundated with roaches!!!!

    Seems like every other day somewhere,someone comes up with something (soil,virus,tree bark, sea creature,alien life form)that has "potential".......rather ironc and sad in the US that those drugs already proven to help us are now in such short supply--NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!

    Maybe us 12 million survivors in the US (and millions elsewhere)ought to form and fund an organization that WILL find an AFFORDABLE, readily available CURE for all!!!! (tho isn't that what all the nonprofits/gov't agencies are supposed to be doing?)

    (Ventilation on my part, i guess)
  • laurettas
    laurettas Member Posts: 372
    #9
    coloCan said:

    watch some lab somewhere devise a "cure" from cockeroach
    legs, a bunch of millionaires/billionaires patent and market it and two years later there's a "shortage" declared, while our apartments are inundated with roaches!!!!

    Seems like every other day somewhere,someone comes up with something (soil,virus,tree bark, sea creature,alien life form)that has "potential".......rather ironc and sad in the US that those drugs already proven to help us are now in such short supply--NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!

    Maybe us 12 million survivors in the US (and millions elsewhere)ought to form and fund an organization that WILL find an AFFORDABLE, readily available CURE for all!!!! (tho isn't that what all the nonprofits/gov't agencies are supposed to be doing?)

    (Ventilation on my part, i guess)

    I agree, coloCan
    Have had the same thoughts myself. We ought to fund our own research and bypass a bunch of the red tape that seems to go with government oversight. There is so much concern about whether or not a new treatment harms someone but look at what they give us to use. Not exactly non-toxic!

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