According to a recent report many research institutes and medical scientists are competing for additional funding following a huge increase from President Obama in the budget for the National Institute of Health. Some are saying that being able to get additional funding could help with research into cancer, including helping to find a cure for the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma.
Obama has increased the NIH budget by thirty percent, and the additional funds are now at the center of heated competition amongst medical scientists and researchers. As a result of the increased budget the NIH is able to increase funding for scientists and researchers across the country, according to reports.
It is thought that a lot of the funding will be put towards taking on new medical and scientific experts in a bid to try and further study a number of fatal diseases, such as mesothelioma, in the hope of finding a cure. Richard Marchase, President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, said: “So many important discoveries are on the cusp of being made.”
One institution that has put in a reported two hundred or so individual applications for increased funding is the University of Chicago, which said it would use the funding to further study lung tumours, breast cancer, and mesothelioma.
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Funding is certainly an issue, not only for mesothelioma but probable all cancers.
I was diagnosed with mesothelioma in sept. ‘07.At that time there was very little hope to look forward to. I was told I had about 4 months to live. I had a pleurodesis performed on me and was very weak after it.
The pleurodesis is a procedure that does not always work. Mine was a great success,
I began to gain strength and weight and my oncologist was impressed.
I had done as anyone wishing to cling to life would do. I had searched the “net” for cures.
“cure” is a wild term. The medical profession still, to this day, say “there is no cure”.
I discarded the “send money and we will cure you” spiels.
I settled on a variety of items, all available from you chemist, which are aimed at your immune system and a number of anti-oxidents, plus two items I do buy on the net. They are certainly no mystery.
As I progressed ,regular CT scans and blood tests showed the meso. to be stationary - or in remission. At 8 months after diagnoses, scans showed an increase. My oncologist deemed me fit for chemo. I had six doses over a 15 week period.
The meso reduced,
I continued with my own treatment (there was nothing else available). About March ‘09 ,an increase showed again.
I am being monitored and it appears that another course of chemo will start in a few weeks time.
Outwardly, I have the appearance of a healthy male of the 72 years I am. I weigh in at about 110KG.I was a very long term Builder frequently using asbestos and asbestos products.
Now for research. Since my diagnoses when there was nothing available other than chemo, which is only to prolong the inevitable and improve quality of life, a few break through’s have occurred.
A Professor, Dr. Vogl, in Frankfurt. Germany has “cured” an english woman of mesothelioma with a different approach. (Look up Debbie Brewer UK.She has a web site) In Australia, a team led by Professor Dr. Robinson , has not only cured a laboritory animal of meso. His team attempted to re-infect the animal with meso. but it was immune.
This success came using an already tried external treatment that was approved by the health authorities for external use only. It is being mixed with another relatively simple ingredient and being used direct to the cancer internally. It has to undergo more tests before human trials can commence.
I have put my hand up to participate, if I am deemed suitable and still around.
If mesothelioma, and other cancers, are to be cured, funding for the researchers must be made available.
At present the big drug companies pour money into research on the diseases that are most common and wide spread.
There is a potential fortune to be made for them if they are successful.
Mesothelioma, on the other hand, is classed as “rare”. There is no potential for drug companies to make a great profit, so they do not put the money towards it.
Who does this leave ?. Governments.
A couple of years ago, again in Australia (west) a group of researches successfully cured an animal of meso. One out of 5 infected.
2 died of overdose. 2 had to be “put down” as the disease went wild.
I would call this significant success, but the powers to be didn’t see it that way. Funding was stopped.
Research certainly does’nt come cheap. Most Governments seem to be able to find money for War. Money for celebrations. Money for their salaries and expenses and “perks”.
They shy away from medical research.
Recently, my oncologist said to me “Do not give up hope, Ron.” I certainly have not. Its an interesting situation now. Can I survive long enough to experience “the cure”. It surely will come. Its just a matter of research.
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