Comments on: Fighting Deadly Cancer – New Sensitive Test To Detect Cancer Cells in its Early Stages

By: bradley moore

bradley moore — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:02:15 +0000

what do you mean website? my sister died of cancer in 2007. it has wrecked our family. my mom 78 has cancer now it’s her 3rd time. she will need 31 treatments both chemo and radiation. she has dementia too and smokes a pack of ciggererts a day. what about me???? i have HIV and i’m a type 2 deibetic on insulin and have had her second hand smoke for many many years. great huh??? is there a place in san francisco, ca. my home town for this treatment? i’m 55 on sept. 27th. would like to hear from you. thank-you so much brad moore.

By: Mia Braxton

Mia Braxton — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:51:55 +0000

I would like to know more about this test my Dad just died from pancreactic cancer and so did his Dad.

By: dinah

dinah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:52:38 +0000

congratulations!! truly cancer is a vicious, inciduous illness in all of its forms and causes such devastation to families and patients…. I wish this team godspeed and salutations….blessings***

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:19:28 +0000

Between my parents, they had seven types of cancer, so I consider myself a high risk as well. I would be very much interested in being tested. Thank you!

By: Gloria Lloyd

Gloria Lloyd — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:29:35 +0000

Cancer does not run in my immediate family, but I have a daughter whose father and grandfather died of cancer.

By: Dr James Blumenthal

Dr James Blumenthal — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:58:20 +0000

Before we all jump on the bandwagon, the reason for the 5 year delay in rolling a test like this out is that it has to be proven to actually work. There are currently a number of tests for cancer which look at fairly sensitive markers and which should be able to pick up tumor and neoplastic activity very early on. Some, like the American Metabolics cancer profile can be quite valuable. Others, like Oncolab’s AMAS test are next to useless. I have a lab report from Oncolab showing a perfectly normal AMAS taken a couple days after my patient received biopsy results showing an invasive throat cancer this past winter. Holding both in my hands, I called Oncolab and all they could tell me is that sometimes that happens. And to think we used to use that test as a screen for at-risk patients!

Science is a funny thing. It is not all certainty and the healing arts are so-called because they are as often a matter of the practitioner’s artistic and intuitive application of his or her training as they are based in absolute facts and science.

DNA methylation testing makes sense on its surface. For us as doctors, for us as people threatened with cancer, and for him and his team, I hope that Dr. Wang’s test proves to be the contribution that it promises. In the interim, a healthy skepticism may be valuable.

By: kATHI VOS

kATHI VOS — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:30:34 +0000

HOW CAN A PERSON OBTAIN THIS DNA CANCER TEST?

By: hildamfox

hildamfox — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:03:39 +0000

please send me more information and is it for anyone interested in being tested. Thanks

By: Oma Talley Cast

Oma Talley Cast — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:00:21 +0000

How does one schedule this test – is it currently available
at John Hopkins?? What is the cost?? My husband & I
both are at high risk for cancer & would like to get this
test to identify in early stages. Please advise asap.

Thank you,

Oma Talley Cast
1-714-429-7733, ext 101
omatalley@aol.com