Monday, April 26, 2010

How come a great deal of research on the causes of and possible cure for cancer focus on mitosis?

I agree with what The last guy said. 1 thing I don't agree with is the chemo therapy. I guess my little cousin was one of the unlucky one to get too much chemo. My advice is these days. Check your PH level? 7.35 or better cancer has a harder time surviving.

How come a great deal of research on the causes of and possible cure for cancer focus on mitosis?
Cells increase in number through mitosis. Chemotherapy works by stopping mitosis, but present medicines stop mitosis in all sorts of cells besides cancer cells. If there are enzymes or other chemicals needed for mitosis that are unique to cancer cells or at least a particular type of cell, then chemotherapy can be given in much higher doses without killing the patient.





Right now, chemotherapy targets too many non-cancer cells, so the drugs have to be stopped after a short exposure to let tissues heal from the chemotherapy. This requires a series of chemotherapy treatments over many weeks or months, and it prevents the docs from giving enough medicine to kill the cancers cells in a single dose.
Reply:check out this research group........http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Reply:cancer has to do with cells escaping the reproduction check points and continually growing. this occurs in mitosis, where cells reproduce. cancer = reproduction error in mitosis


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