Momtezuma Tuatara
31-12-09, 05:16 PM
This is a very important article. Long, but stunning. Read it all. This is just an extract.
The same principle could apply in other topisc :duh: like... ahem... vaccination.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html)
Forty Years' War
Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight
By GINA KOLATA (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: December 28, 2009
Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer (http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier)Nathan Weyland for The New York Times
Dr. Mina Bissell has been lauded for creating “a paradigm shift” in the study of the genesis of cancer
“He took the paper and held it over the wastebasket and said, ‘What do you want me to do with it?’ Then he dropped it in.”
That was 20 years ago, and ever since, Dr. Bissell and a few others have struggled for acceptance of what seemed a radical idea: Gene mutations are part of the process of cancer, but mutations alone are not enough. Cancer involves an interaction between rogue cells and surrounding tissue.
The idea seemed messy and unduly complicated. And cancer genes seemed comparatively clear-cut. So it was often ignored or dismissed as researchers focused on genes and on isolated cancer cells growing in Petri dishes in laboratories.
The same principle could apply in other topisc :duh: like... ahem... vaccination.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html)
Forty Years' War
Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight
By GINA KOLATA (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/index.html?inline=nyt-per)
Published: December 28, 2009
Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just published on the genesis of cancer (http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier)Nathan Weyland for The New York Times
Dr. Mina Bissell has been lauded for creating “a paradigm shift” in the study of the genesis of cancer
“He took the paper and held it over the wastebasket and said, ‘What do you want me to do with it?’ Then he dropped it in.”
That was 20 years ago, and ever since, Dr. Bissell and a few others have struggled for acceptance of what seemed a radical idea: Gene mutations are part of the process of cancer, but mutations alone are not enough. Cancer involves an interaction between rogue cells and surrounding tissue.
The idea seemed messy and unduly complicated. And cancer genes seemed comparatively clear-cut. So it was often ignored or dismissed as researchers focused on genes and on isolated cancer cells growing in Petri dishes in laboratories.