Saturday, April 5, 2008

Depressing <7% cure statistic for bone metastatised neuroblastoma cancer

I received this post on my neuroblastoma mailing list. Information seems pretty recent. Have posted the contents to my neuroblastoma information research blog. Will hopefully review and understand this information with Dr Beracheul on Wednesday.

All of a sudden this info has changed my mood from optimistic to depressed, even after all the progress we have made so far.

post: curcumin-induces-apoptosis-in-human

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I just don't think that stat is true. It was tested on a small sample size in Germany, which has a different treatment protocol. That could be for relapsed neuroblastoma, not upfront treatment as well. That seems more likely to me as I am guessing that trial (like all these Phase1 and most Phase2 trials) was only done children with relapsed disease. if that is the case, then I believe that number of 7% in relapse patients. It is not consistent with upfront treatment cure rates however. Have faith!

uj@ieee.org said...

Video on bone and bone marrow metastates;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7584982958824668601&hl=en