Genome Study Charts Genetic Landscape Of Lung Cancer
An international team of scientists have announced the results of a systematic effort to map the genetic changes underlying lung cancer, the world’s leading cause of cancer deaths. Appearing in the November 4 advance online issue of the journal Nature, the research provides a comprehensive view of the abnormal genetic landscape in lung cancer cells, revealing more than 50 genomic regions that are frequently gained or lost in human lung tumors.
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At 10:49 am on November 7th, 2007 Kenneth H Young said:
Misdirection is one of the keys to slight of hand.
Lately there seems to be a push when related to cancer which seem to blame cancer on the Victims themselves with an article stating that Fat or over weight as being the cause of cancer and now on the victim’s ancestors or blame our parents or Grand parents for our cancers with an article called “Genome Study Charts Genetic Landscape of Lung Cancer.”
Correct me if I am wrong but going by these two reports, humans should have been extinct long before we started spraying everything with toxic chemicals such as Dioxin, PCB and HCB just to name a few on the POP list, back when our ancestors were hunter/herders and ate almost only meat.
Then again there seems to be neither Government nor Chemical Industry money for any research which might cut into corporate profits or which would indicate any government liability for registering unsafe and unproven chemicals.
I suppose if they were to give me a couple of million to do research I could even prove that which type of bread we consumed was a contributing factor and that was causing Cancer. You only need to take rye bread and white bread eaters then check about 10 in each group and if one group has even one more cancer then the other there is a 10% higher risk in eating that type of bread. Which bread comes out on top does not matter, if the test comes out the same, call it inconclusive and pick another ten, this time picking 10 of one type of bread eaten living near a dioxin spewing factory or CFB Gagetown and the other group from an area without any need for chemical spraying like the North Pole. And there you got it, “If you eat this type of bread you are 20% more likely to contract cancer. Or you could go one step further and say eating causes cancer in that everyone who had cancer had eaten wile those who didn’t eat although dead never got cancer.
New Zealand research gave proof that Dioxin made irreversible changes to the subjects DNA, changes that if no further contamination were to accrue, would still take 7 generations to work their way out. This is where the studies should have continued from other contaminates such as HCB, and PCB heavy metals and everyone of the POP 12, should have been looked into.
Both of these studies could have gone further, the don’t eat meat one by finding out what in the meat was causing cancer instead of blaming the meat eater and this Genome study by finding out when and why the DNA was in fact changed.
But here’s a news flash, “There is no one willing to finance this kind of study, and if we keep spraying these chemicals there soon won’t be any further need to study the causes of cancers or any other medical conditions involved here because we will all be dead or dieing.
CFB Gagetown should have been a Canadian wake up call. The fact that after 50 years there is still 173 times the CCME acceptable levels for dioxin in the soil, should have scared the be-Jesus out of Canadians and Ottawa but instead they chose to circle the wagons and give us more wired science, more denials and gave us the three monkey treatment, closed their eyes, ears and cover their mouths.
Wake up Canada before you wake up dead.
Cpl. Kenneth H. Young CD (Ret’d).