Showing posts with label natural cell death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural cell death. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Managing the loopholes in the cell cycle

Cure to cancer is within reach and is within the management of LOOPHOLES. Cancer cells have within their pathways, redundancy that protects these pathways to maintain life of the malignant cell. You close one door, just to see another one open up to ensure that the life of the cancer cell is maintained. So, unless you hit a critical pathway with no escape routes, the treatment result will be partial and temporary. To succeed we need to hit several targets in total and and sometimes sequentially to impose on the cell to choose the path to its natural death (apoptosis). So most treatments which are limited to one or only a few targets prove partially and temporary effective. This is why building an electronic Cell and being able to put in all the pathways and observe where they lead to, what doors open and which ones are closed or closing, which are critical and which lead to apoptosis (natural cell death) is crucial. Which sequence of shut down leads to sure cell death? Right now we are at the step where we are learning about shutting or opening one door and evaluating the sequence of events that follow. But with our model in hand, we can be more comprehensive in our approach. The model will help determine effects on cancer cells by shutting several doors at once, "closing Loopholes" as Tax people would love to say. This approach with target therapy has led to breaking resistance to certain types of cancers that were notoriously resistant. Today, we are starting to have response rates in Melanoma. We have double or triple longevity in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, GIST, Myeloma etc...Just wait to see what we will get once we manage to give Multistage Multitarget Therapies (MMT). Cure is within the management of Loopholes!