Patrick Swaze responding well to traditional pancreatic cancer

treatment.

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=95c876d8-ec3c-4835-92fa-31f160865351
Patrick Swayze is undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer but does not have just weeks to live, the actor's reps and doctor said Wednesday.

"Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment so far," Dr. George Fisher, Swayze's personal physician, said in a statement. "All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue."

Fisher's remarks were in rebuttal to the National Enquirer, which broke the news of Swayze's illness on its website and said the Dirty Dancing star had recently dropped 20 pounds and been given only five weeks to live.

Meanwhile back on the farm....

http://clinicahealth.usnews.com/comments.pl?sid=08/05/23/0536217
The researchers said the discovery is important because the mitochnodria contains its own DNA and can continuously supply the cell with energy when functioning fully. Stopping the energy flow can therefore help stop cancer.

In investigating why the pancreatic cancer cells are particularly resistant to chemotherapy and therefore reactive to the inclusion of resveratrol, the team found that the natural pumping of digestive enzymes to the duodenum actually flushes out chemotherapy from pancreas cells.

But as resveratrol interferes with the cancer cells' energy source, it also may decrease the power available to pump the treatment out of the cell.

Okunieff said: "While additional studies are needed, this research indicated that resveratrol has a promising future as part of the treatment for cancer."


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/103784.php
While disabling the function of the cancer cells by reaching and reacting with the mitochondria (the cell's energy source), researchers found that when they were pre-treated with resveratrol before being irradiated, it resulted in a type of cell death called apoptosis. This is an important goal of cancer therapy.

According to Paul Okunieff, chief of radiation oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Centre, "Antioxidant research is very active and very seductive right now the challenge lies in finding the right concentration and how it works inside the cell. Resveratrol seems to have a therapeutic gain by making tumor cells more sensitive to radiation and making normal tissue less sensitive."

Just my opinion.

thing. He is not getting that other stuff, but it is interesting that scientists are seeing his condition (IN THE PETRI DISH) become more responsive to therapy.

Bring on the sweepers.

docs helping him recover.

Pancreatic cancer research has been woefully underfunded, but I understand that there have been recent developments that improve quality of life, etc.

horrific disease. :cry:

to be a feel good thread for Patrick but forgot that some here may have lost significant others to it....

this disease. :)