Best of Breast: news for week ending 3 January 2014

The first lot of news in 2014, and it’s the usual melange of cancer breakthroughs which turn out not to be real breakthroughs because they only work on mice and rats.  Or what seems to be a breakthrough really is a simplification and sensationalism on the part of the newspaper that published it.

Apologies for sounding so world-weary only days into the New Year, but the fact is, scientists keep coming up with “cures” which have only been tested on mice and rats and will only be commercially-available years down the road after they’ve been put the through pharmaceutical company hoops.  After several months of putting together Best of Breast, I’ve become quite suspicious and now make sure I kick the tyres on any purported cancer “cure”.

Sorry for the lack of new developments! Uz ratz have been partying!

After the previous three weeks’ of Best of Breast which were chockful of news from the San Antonio Breast Symposium 2013, the news has petered out.  Maybe everyone (and the mice and ratz) has been too busy enjoying Christmas and New Year to publish their research findings!

I’m fed-up of seeing my friends suffer, and facing my fears at night – I want a cure, and I want it now for this terrible disease!  It’s either that or let’s all become rats and mice!

[Fact:  Mice and humans share 98% DNA. It takes changing only 2% of mice DNA to make a human being (if it were that easy). That’s why most experiments are conducted on mice.]

On a more positive note, I’m taking this opportunity to fill this week’s black hole, to re-post a piece of news first reported in Best of Breast (w/e 27 Dec 2013) on cancer immunotherapy being voted breakthrough of the year by Science magazine.

This is backed-up by an excellent summary in Business Australia of an increase in gene-based and immune-boosting therapies because the cost of gene sequencing is coming down.  Great news!  I believe this is the future of cancer treatments – magic bullets with targetted treatments, preferably getting the immune system to do the fighting with antibody treatments and vaccines.

There’s also an article on Bcl-2 protein expression, and my personal experience of using it as a marker.

Supplement: GcMAF

Macrophage eating cancer cell (photo from http://www.gcmaf.eu/info/)

Updated March 2016 – For more information on GcMAF, please join the GcMAF and GcMAF Cancer forums on Facebook – they are closed groups, so you have to wait for your membership to be confirmed.  They contain up-to-date information on sources of GcMAF, and also feedback and contributions  by people who are using GcMAF.

this post has helped you, please would you help me?  I am now fundraising for cancer treatments at GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/78jh2w or at JustGiving:  https://www.justgiving.com/goBananasforRona

[update 7 Dec 2013 – see post on Fulda integrative conference on possible reason why GcMAF did not work for me]

Updated 22 Feb 2014:  please note that the process for culturing Maf314 is different from Bravo Probiotic.  I suggest that if you want to do it properly, that you buy a fresh set of cultures from Bravo as only they can guarantee the activity of the cultures.  Compound 1 must be cultured afresh from powder each time.  Compound 2 can be re-propagated from the existing culture. 

When I was trying to find another weapon to beat the cancer, I used GcMAF for about three months.

What I did next … another set of infusions

So I’d tried high dose IV C, and when that didn’t work, another set of triple infusions.

This set triple infusions consisted of a vitamin cocktail, a phospholipid mix and a niacin flush.  The phospholipid mix was to do with something about the membranes of cancer cells.  I wish I’d got the explanation.  The niacin flush was to dilate [expand] the blood vessels in the body and ensure that the previous infusions were better absorbed.  They weren’t cheap – about the price of a high dose IV C.