Chau Huang Kuan wrote:
> Dear everybody,
> E. Excel international have successfully found a
> method of using a drop of blood to check whether you got cancer or
> not. We
> already apply the patent of this machine. Next year, 1998, every
> hospital
> in the world will buy this machine from E. Excel. You will find a
> label on
> that machine " made in E. Excel". Surprise!!!
> This is really a amazing news.. Do you know that we can check
> out the
> cancer
> before it become serious? How many life we can save?
> Another most important thing is all of our products have been
> proved that
> will be useful to prevent cancer. E. Excel has found the main reason
> of
> suffering from cancer. It's because our body cannot repair DNA which
> has
> been
> damaged by cancer cells. After the experiment, we found that all of
> our
> products have the ability to repair DNA, that means that we can
> prevent the
> cancer permanently.
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>> Chau Huang Kuan
> Email: hkchua at pc.jaring.my> URL: http://www.geocities.com/collegepark/union/1649/
Wonderfull, another source of shoulder pork and ham on this net. First
of all, DNA is not damaged by cancer cells, but damage to DNA is just
one mechanism that leads to cancer. Other mechanisms include defects in
inherited genes which modulate cell growth (oncogenes such as p53 and
bcr -1), enviromental signals that cause metaplasia (tobacco, fat --
derived estrogens), and failure of senescent cells to undergoe apoptosis
(programmed cell death).
As far as a single test to detect cancer -- 30 years ago CEA was thought
to be the test. It's helpful in known cancer cases, but isn't sensitive
enough to be used as a screen. Ten years ago, a researcher published
magnetic resonance data (never confirmed). Five years ago, everyone
thought that CA-125 screening could detect early ovarian cancer.
However, anything which irritated the pelvis could cause a mild
elevation while a higher cutoff misses some early cases.
In other words, I doubt you have the "gold standard" single test for
cancer (and yes, I checked out your web page.
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