[Fwd: Chemo-Radiation Therapy May Fuel Spread of Cancer]

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**Treatment May Fuel Cancer's Spread**

Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation may sometimes

cause tumors to spread, researchers say.

Tests in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or

radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast

cancer tumors spread to the lung.

But using an antibody to block TGF-beta stopped the process, Dr.

Arteaga and colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee have reported.

“We'll be looking to see in what proportion of patients the serum and

tumor TGF-beta goes up, and whether the increase correlates with the

inability of the therapy to eliminate the cancer in the breast,” Arteaga

said.

“Higher levels of TGF-beta after treatment may be a way to predict which

patients are likely to have their cancer come back after treatment,”

Arteaga added.

TGF-beta, however, is not the only element that is having this effect.

Many other compounds, including some immune system signaling chemicals,

are also associated with tumor spread and growth.

Researchers are also testing drugs that interfere with TGF-beta to see

if they improve chances of survival.

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A week after the biopsy to my Fibrohistiocitoma, above my right eye, it

started to move to the top of may head, it grew between the skin and the

granulometry, it was very painful, I could feel its progress with my

fingers. It reached the top. I stopped the hole thing when i used the

4Hz Zapper, that was Nov. of 2003.

That was very close!!! and an unforgettably experience.

Horacio

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Country Girl wrote:

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> **Treatment May Fuel Cancer's Spread**

>

> Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation may sometimes

> cause tumors to spread, researchers say.

>

> Tests in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or

> radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast

> cancer tumors spread to the lung.

>

> But using an antibody to block TGF-beta stopped the process, Dr.

> Arteaga and colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee have reported.

>

> “We'll be looking to see in what proportion of patients the serum and

> tumor TGF-beta goes up, and whether the increase correlates with the

> inability of the therapy to eliminate the cancer in the breast,” Arteaga

> said.

>

> “Higher levels of TGF-beta after treatment may be a way to predict which

> patients are likely to have their cancer come back after treatment,”

> Arteaga added.

>

> TGF-beta, however, is not the only element that is having this effect.

> Many other compounds, including some immune system signaling chemicals,

> are also associated with tumor spread and growth.

>

> Researchers are also testing drugs that interfere with TGF-beta to see

> if they improve chances of survival.

>

> SHL/PC/DB

>

> http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5148 & sectionid=3510210

> <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5148 & sectionid=3510210>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Country Girl:

A week after the biopsy to my Fibrohistiocitoma, above my right eye, it

started to move to the top of may head, it grew between the skin and the

granulometry, it was very painful, I could feel its progress with my

fingers. It reached the top. I stopped the hole thing when i used the

4Hz Zapper, that was Nov. of 2003.

That was very close!!! and an unforgettably experience.

Horacio

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Country Girl wrote:

>

> ////

>

>

> **Treatment May Fuel Cancer's Spread**

>

> Treating cancer with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation may sometimes

> cause tumors to spread, researchers say.

>

> Tests in mice show that using the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin or

> radiation both raised levels of TGF-beta, which in turn helped breast

> cancer tumors spread to the lung.

>

> But using an antibody to block TGF-beta stopped the process, Dr.

> Arteaga and colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee have reported.

>

> “We'll be looking to see in what proportion of patients the serum and

> tumor TGF-beta goes up, and whether the increase correlates with the

> inability of the therapy to eliminate the cancer in the breast,” Arteaga

> said.

>

> “Higher levels of TGF-beta after treatment may be a way to predict which

> patients are likely to have their cancer come back after treatment,”

> Arteaga added.

>

> TGF-beta, however, is not the only element that is having this effect.

> Many other compounds, including some immune system signaling chemicals,

> are also associated with tumor spread and growth.

>

> Researchers are also testing drugs that interfere with TGF-beta to see

> if they improve chances of survival.

>

> SHL/PC/DB

>

> http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5148 & sectionid=3510210

> <http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5148 & sectionid=3510210>

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