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cure cancer in dogs

Page history last edited by Richard Karpinski 14 years, 2 months ago
This is the text of a message I sent in January 2010 to Land of Pure Gold which studies cancer in dogs.
 
Dr. Zheng Cui at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found a cancer resistant mouse and now has 4 strains of such mice. Later he found that 10-15 percent of people are cancer resistant in the summer.
 
There is a clinical trial of Leukocyte InFusion Therapy, LIFT, at a South Florida Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplant facility with up to 29 human subjects. The leukocytes have attacked and killed all of the tested cancer cell types including blood cancers and 24 other kinds of cancer.
 
YOU (http://landofpuregold.com/home.html) found that very aged dogs did not get cancers which suggests to me that those particular dogs have genetic protection via neutrophils, macrophages, and natural killer cells. The assay for cancer killing activity is straightforward when you have marked cancer cells whose glow disappears when they die. Apparently these are not hard to obtain. Put some in a suitable medium and add some blood from an animal to be tested, perhaps best done in the summer. If the glow dies, the cancer cells died and you have found one.
 

Given some cancer resistant dogs, if they exist, would it not make sense to try LIFT on suitably matched dogs with cancer? One must try to avoid GVHD. In humans we do this by using mismatched HLA but I don't know the details in dogs or other pet species. Ideally, we'd like to discover nutrients or drugs which enhance our own immune systems to attack our cancers, but it would be good to have successes in other mammals the better to understand the mechanisms and genes involved. 

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