Pioneering Cure.

Recently there has been announced a new way of treating blood cancer but I was shocked by the laid back attitude of a doctor commenting on the future use of this treatment. Out of twenty six volunteers who had been selected as conventional treatment had failed them, twenty four responded to the new treatment and had no further signs of blood cancer. Two volunteers died as a direct result of the over activity of their white blood cells. The treatment is to remove a blood sample from the sick patient and to modify the white cells to recognise the cancer cells and to inject the modified blood back into the patient so the natural job of the white cells would attack the cancer cells. The doctor stated it would be many years before this treatment would be nationally available and in the meantime conventional treatment was already available and doing a good job.

Am I missing something? The twenty six volunteers were selected because they were not responding to conventional treatment for their blood cancer. So instead of two patients dying there would be another twenty four fatalities. If I was given a choice of a ninety four percent chance of a successful cure for blood cancer I would take it. What worries me is if the doctor's words represent the Government and medical Authorities' attitude in the speed of implementing this new successful blood cancer treatment I can not bear the thought of the twelve or more people in the UK that will die every day unnecessarily knowing a proven treatment is not to be given to them.

After seeing this major news on the new blood cancer treatment there was an advertisement to donate money for the research for a curer for cancer. My first reaction was the most positive thing to do would be to demand from your MP and medical administrators why this course of treatment can not immediately be made available as the results are unquestionably far superior to the present options of treatment. I understand the stock reply is the time for testing. I have two replies to that. First adequate testing does not have to take a long time it just has to be thorough, there has been past lengthy testing of other known thought to be miracle cures only later to be found out to have a problematic prognoses with a lot of traumatic side effects and two, patients lives that have been judged as terminal, would have the option of helping the testing of the treatment with a good chance of survival themselves.

Cancer is an illness that can destroy lives. Many people have been influenced by what cancer has done and know that it is not an option for good people to do nothing.

There are seven deadly sins and I suggest there is an eighth in that of complacency. Why am I moved to demand action? When the figure of twelve is mentioned it has no value unless like me you know a good friend who was given two months prognoses and did not have an opportunity for alternative treatment. She left behind a loving daughter and husband and was at the peek of her professional career. It must not be ignored that there is a lot of hard work and effort put in by many inspired and marvellous doctors and scientists in their aim to find a cure for cancer. What I would say is that this work should unite with that of a belief that for some maybe a cure in the early stage is superior to that of no cure at all. The theory behind the new treatment for blood cancer could be used to treat other types of cancer and with all that we can see in the miraculous advanced thoughts that become a modern day medical miracle we should not ignore what the body itself is able to do if given the chance. There is a lot to be noted in the power of recovery in the body itself and I think that if this is teamed with the medical advancement of today then we have not even scratched the surface of what could be possible.