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Mary Ann, my ovarian cancer was encapsulated inside a very huge gross cyst and my surgeon apparently got it before it had metastasized. The cells found in my abdomen had apparently gotten there during surgery. The chemo nearly killed me. and I wish it had. Everyone has their own theory why I survived, the above is mine. People asked did I have a "good' attitude....it was bad, trust me. I was so popular at my school everyone was praying for me. But my best friend, also a well-loved teacher and 2 years younger than me, is very dead from osteocarcinoma. If you are one of the dead young or old, from cancer your family is not thrilled about the great treatments out there. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 4:59 AM Subject: Re: Stem cells and our prognosis > Ray wrote: >> The best recourse is to not get this disease at all. Perhaps someday >> there >> will be a vaccine like for uterine cancer. > > Before we prevent PD, we have to know what causes it - and we don't. I > wonder how much research is going on in that field? > >>Sen. Sam >> Brownback working to criminalize it if it involves embryonic stem cells, >> which some folks like to confuse with fetal cells. > > I think the American people are far ahead of Brownback in understanding > the > issue. People who are waaay on the right and waaaay on the left are > seldom > taken seriously by majority of the population. > >> I don't know if you ever get outside this site or not, but there is >> plenty >> of nitpicking going on about the ethics of this research among those who >> have the luxury of good health . > > I'm one of those. There is stuff going on in this research that is more > than a bit scary. Throwing caution to the wind when developing new forms > of > genetic material is downright dangerous. > > Yesterday, the wife of a Shy-Drager patient told me that a friend of her's > had a stem cell implant. While he was functional before, he is totally > debilitated now because of that surgery. She was not a fan of stem cell > implants. > >> >> Meantime, I see children on TV with terminal cancer while we wait to >> satisfy >> those who make our laws and determine our futures. > > I'm all for curing cancer - there are many avenues in which that can be > accomplished and we have made *tremendous* strides in successfully treated > many forms of cancer. You are an example of that. Stem cell research is > no > panacea - to claim that it will cure cancer or PD or anything else is a > stretch at this point. We don't know what it will do - when you introduce > new genetic material into the body virtually anything can happen.> > >> The California stem cell research is stalled in litigation, the Mary >> Scott >> Doe case claiming personhood under the 14th amendment for embryos. > > When the people of California have spoken, I (like you) resent the fact > that > someone can prevent research from going forward That's terrible. > ----------- > God bless > Mary Ann (CG Jamie 65/25 with PD) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn