FDA, Cancer, Money, Kanzius

I get the first chemo treatment of my 3rd cycle today. This just burns me up, so I just need to write some thoughts down. This whole Kanzius, gold nano particle thing really isn't a new idea. Gold nano particles have been around for decades and they have been researched for cancer treatment for many years. In fact, there is a very similar treatment that has been around a while for the treatment of skin cancers. They inject the site with nano particles and then apply a near infrared light. The nano particles heat up and the cancer dies. Also, there have been studies going way back to 2000 that have tested the cytotoxicity of gold nano particles in healthy tissue. Targeting shouldn't really be an issue, since cancer cells are very much different from healthy cells. Cancer cells have many more insulin receptors, hey have much higher concentrations of glucose, they produce many different types of proteins specific to cancer. I could probably find another half dozen things that are specific to cancer cells simply by searching the internet. So targeting them isn't going to be that hard. Remember the old saying, "if you can see it you can kill it". It wouldn't take a huge scientific leap to add gold nano particles to the irradiated glucose we get during PET scans. But you better believe that isn't going to happen. Your going to have to go to the Dr get samples and biopsies, their going to do genetic testing, then they'll pick which antibody target is right for you. If your cancer is different than others, they may be able to customize one for you. All this is going to take years to work out. But the technology will be difficult to duplicate and they will charge an arm and a leg for it. Meanwhile, the much simpler and more generic targeting would work fine, but it'll never be available because it wouldn't be near as profitable as the alternative. Beyond targeting mechanisms, many geometric variations have been tried and many of them have been foud to linger within cancer cells for much longer than healthy cells. The longest of which is 3 days. That's right, they inject you with gold nano particles, your healthy cells pass the gold nano particles, the cancer cells don't; two days later you walk through a radio transmitter and then you walk home cancer free. Almost any lab can make gold nano particles. It's cheap and simple. All you need is some gold foil and a cathode ray tube. There is no way to patent the technology so they have to find a way to make it their own before bringing it to market. The FDA makes this possible. I'm saddened by the millions of lives that will suffer and die between now and then, simply for proprietary technology and the quest for profit. I am facing the real possibility of dying before this technology comes to market. I'm not hoping for this to work, I know it works. What I hope for is that some one will find a way to make it so profitable that they fast track it to the market.