I just want someone to help me
I am feeling sad and afraid. I have this tumor in my head and I don't want it there. I want someone to help me figure out what to do. And I so wish that the literature had more clarity on what to do. I feel overwhelmed. I looked all day today on the Internet for answers. They aren't there. I did learn a few more things. And found a doctor whose name appeared fairly often on articles about low-grade gliomas. I finally broke to buy dinner and realized how deeply this is affecting me, how deeply sad and scared I am, and how much I WISH THERE WERE RESEARCH that suggested the best approach. I want someone to help me. I want someone who can hold the medical knowledge that I learn from doctors and that I learn from my research and that can help me sort out what I want to do given the information that does exist, my values, the risks, and my current partial disability. Because when I get into this my emotions can overwhelm me. And my friends get overwhelmed, they don't want me to die and I don't want to either.
posted by Marie @ 6:51 PM
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I how this helps...
Ruta 6 selectively induces cell death in brain cancer cells but proliferation in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes: A novel treatment for human brain cancer.
Pathak S, Multani AS, Banerji P, Banerji P.
Department of Molecular Genetics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. pathak_sen@yahoo.com
Although conventional chemotherapies are used to treat patients with malignancies, damage to normal cells is problematic. Blood-forming bone marrow cells are the most adversely affected. It is therefore necessary to find alternative agents that can kill cancer cells but have minimal effects on normal cells. We investigated the brain cancer cell-killing activity of a homeopathic medicine, Ruta, isolated from a plant, Ruta graveolens. We treated human brain cancer and HL-60 leukemia cells, normal B-lymphoid cells, and murine melanoma cells in vitro with different concentrations of Ruta in combination with Ca3(PO4)2. Fifteen patients diagnosed with intracranial tumors were treated with Ruta 6 and Ca3(PO4)2. Of these 15 patients, 6 of the 7 glioma patients showed complete regression of tumors. Normal human blood lymphocytes, B-lymphoid cells, and brain cancer cells treated with Ruta in vitro were examined for telomere dynamics, mitotic catastrophe, and apoptosis to understand the possible mechanism of cell-killing, using conventional and molecular cytogenetic techniques. Both in vivo and in vitro results showed induction of survival-signaling pathways in normal lymphocytes and induction of death-signaling pathways in brain cancer cells. Cancer cell death was initiated by telomere erosion and completed through mitotic catastrophe events. We propose that Ruta in combination with Ca3(PO4)2 could be used for effective treatment of brain cancers, particularly glioma.
PMID: 12963976 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
peace!
JLM
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