Batmom Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 In the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11cancer.html?_r=1&ref=science They're talking about a finding that cancer doesn't necessarily develop gradually. "Dr. Campbell's group reports that about 2 percent to 3 percent of all cancers, and 25 percent of bone cancers, originate in this kind of chromosome-shattering burst." (bold is mine) This doesn't mean that environmental factors, inheritance, etc. don't play a role -- I'm sure they all do -- but it may help to explain how you can have a perfectly healthy dog or person one day, and an exceptionally ill one the next. Quote Star aka Starz Ovation (Ronco x Oneco Maggie*, litter #48538), Coco aka Low Key (Kiowa Mon Manny x Party Hardy, litter # 59881), and mom in IllinoisWe miss Reko Batman (Trouper Zeke x Marque Louisiana), 11/15/95-6/29/06, Rocco the thistledown whippet, 04/29/93-10/14/08, Reko Zema (Mo Kick x Reko Princess), 8/16/98-4/18/10, the most beautiful girl in the whole USA, my good egg Joseph aka Won by a Nose (Oneco Cufflink x Buy Back), 09/22/2003-03/01/2013, and our gentle sweet Gidget (Digitizer, Dodgem by Design x Sobe Mulberry), 1/29/2006-11/22/2014, gone much too soon. Never forgetting CJC's Buckshot, 1/2/07-10/25/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BleuDog Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 WOW-----after seeing it happen in a bone--Nothing to 2 weeks later being a MAJOR tumor..... Come On----more research!!!!! Kill..KiLL..KILL....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinw Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 very interesting article. Thank you. Quote Xavi the galgo and Peter the cat. Missing Iker the galgo ?-Feb.9/19, Treasure (USS Treasure) April 12/01-May 6/13, Phoenix (Hallo Top Son) Dec.14/99-June 4/11 and Loca (Reko Swahili) Oct.9/95 - June 1/09, Allen the boss cat, died late November, 2021, age 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnF Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thank you for posting that. I've long held that we should never summarily dismiss what we really see just because it doesn't fit with what the text books or the vet may tut-tut about hypochondria. Some cancers are quick, others are slow, and every incidence is different; now we have a plausible explanation as to why. If I ever see another dog sniffing detrminedly around another dog's non-signalling areas I always take it as a sign to be alert to infection or maybe cancer lurking just below. If only early diagnosis could make a real guaranteed difference to Osteo outcomes we could all sleep a lot more easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45MPHK9 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 thanks for posting this link, Batmom. this was very interesting. Quote Tricia with Kyle, our senior mutt dog Always missing Murray Maldives, Bee Wiseman, River, Hopper, Kaia, and Holly Oaks Holly“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.“ -Bob Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllenEveBaz Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Kind of like the Big Bang theory in micro-miniature. Bone cancer is sometimes treated with radioactive isotopes that home in on the bone, which might explain why so many cases of bone cancer arise this way. What does this sentence mean? To me, it seems to be saying in a circular way that treatment for bone cancer causes bone cancer. Surely that's not what is intended? Quote Ellen, with brindle Milo and the blonde ballerina, Gelsey remembering Eve, Baz, Scout, Romie, Nutmeg, and Jeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batmom Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 He's saying that both types of radiation -- therapeutic and nontherapeutic -- home in on bone. That makes it useful for therapy... and potentially deadly to encounter in a nontherapeutic way. Basically, he's postulating that sudden, catastrophic cell mutations giving rise to bone cancer may be caused by nontherapeutic radiation. That is a rather odd sentence, I agree. Quote Star aka Starz Ovation (Ronco x Oneco Maggie*, litter #48538), Coco aka Low Key (Kiowa Mon Manny x Party Hardy, litter # 59881), and mom in IllinoisWe miss Reko Batman (Trouper Zeke x Marque Louisiana), 11/15/95-6/29/06, Rocco the thistledown whippet, 04/29/93-10/14/08, Reko Zema (Mo Kick x Reko Princess), 8/16/98-4/18/10, the most beautiful girl in the whole USA, my good egg Joseph aka Won by a Nose (Oneco Cufflink x Buy Back), 09/22/2003-03/01/2013, and our gentle sweet Gidget (Digitizer, Dodgem by Design x Sobe Mulberry), 1/29/2006-11/22/2014, gone much too soon. Never forgetting CJC's Buckshot, 1/2/07-10/25/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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