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Ray
of Hope
Chances are you know
someone with one of the common types of cancer: Bladder, Breast, Colon,
Endometrial, Head and Neck, Leukemia, Lung, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Ovarian,
Prostate or Rectal. Or perhaps you or someone you know has one of the nearly
200 other types of cancers. The total number of cancer deaths in 1997 was
564,800; the US population was 268,921,733. The cancer death rate per 100,000
population for 1997 was 210.0. The number of cancer deaths per day was
1547. Clearly, it is obvious that since the launching of the War on Cancer
in the 1970's, the cancer death rate has not gone down. Feeling helpless
is common when battling cancer, whether as a patient or a medical professional
-- however, we at cancer-survivor.org fell upon this program that makes
us feel like we are making a real contribution to the field of cancer research
and possibly a "cure."
There is a project currently underway combining Intel, National Foundation
for Cancer Research, Oxford Medical Research and United Devices to break the
protein molecule code in an effort to cure leukemia. When this model is completed,
the research results will enable the drug companies to manufacture a drug that
will cut off the protein supply of growing cancer cells. This will benefit
ALL cancers not just leukemia. This type of research resulted in the new "miracle
drug" Gleevec, which obtained FDA approval in just 2 months. Anti-angiogenesis
and "targeted proteins" are the new frontier in cancer research and you can
help.
If you have heard of SETI, then you know how this program works. It is software
which acts likes a screensaver on your computer. It uses the unused processing
power of your computer, linking it to over 500,000 (since April of 2001) personal
computers around the world to feed information into a supercomputer at UD.
In the first 5 months of this project, 9,000 years' worth of research was conducted!
More Information
THINK is a computer-aided drug design program that models interaction
between potential drug molecules and a target protein that is involved in the
growth of cancer. Finding positive
interactions between molecule and protein could lead to a cure.
It's so EASY!
So REWARDING!
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