HPV and Cancer: maybe there's hope
May. 10th, 2007 12:03 pmI guess this is a quick heads up to everyone, since
joedecker posted about it today...
My research into HPV for the article I keep on saying I'll write has yielded the following preliminary information:
(1) HPV is the cause of cervical cancer
(2) Some strains can also lead to penile or vulval cancer, though the causal link is not as strong here
(3) Strains 16 and 18 (the ones that the two HPV vaccines innoculate against) are also looking like the leading causes of certain types of anal cancer, as well as having a link to perianal skin cancer (i.e. skin cancer in the region around the anus)
(4) Strain 16 is looking like the leading cause of certain types of throat/oral cancer, closely following drinking alcohol and smoking
However, it also occurred to me today...
U of Alberta is supposedly starting human trials of DCA for curing cancer this spring, and hopes to complete them by the end of the year. If they indeed turn out to have a cure for cancer... Then all this will be for naught. It won't matter if you get HPV, because you'll just take some DCA and the cancer will go away.
And DCA is super cheap. Unlike the vaccines.
I guess we'll see.
My research into HPV for the article I keep on saying I'll write has yielded the following preliminary information:
(1) HPV is the cause of cervical cancer
(2) Some strains can also lead to penile or vulval cancer, though the causal link is not as strong here
(3) Strains 16 and 18 (the ones that the two HPV vaccines innoculate against) are also looking like the leading causes of certain types of anal cancer, as well as having a link to perianal skin cancer (i.e. skin cancer in the region around the anus)
(4) Strain 16 is looking like the leading cause of certain types of throat/oral cancer, closely following drinking alcohol and smoking
However, it also occurred to me today...
U of Alberta is supposedly starting human trials of DCA for curing cancer this spring, and hopes to complete them by the end of the year. If they indeed turn out to have a cure for cancer... Then all this will be for naught. It won't matter if you get HPV, because you'll just take some DCA and the cancer will go away.
And DCA is super cheap. Unlike the vaccines.
I guess we'll see.