BIOPSIES & SCREENING FOR CANCER

A biopsy is the removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body. If a biopsy is performed on  cancer patients, it can be an effective tool for identifying and locating the right chemical which will match with the cancer of the patient from which the cancer tissue , cells or fluid is taken.

The cancer specimen is sent to any number of labs which take this specimen and examine it to determine if any current chemicals in use today are effective in killing the cancer of the particular patient from which the sample has been taken.

There could be thirty or forty chemicals which are tested against the particular of the individual; some will be found to be ineffective, while others in the lab examination may be found to be sensitive to the killing of cancer cells in the patient. Lab results may be inconsistent. They may not always work, and then again, they may work.

Lab results will also show what chemicals are not working! Therefore, if your family member is a cancer patient, and he or she has been treated with certain chemicals, none of which have destroyed the cancer in the patient, then the lab results indicating insensitivity to the cancer will be proved to be correct.

Also, however, lab results may very well identify chemicals which in the lab are proved to be effective in destroying cancer cells. It makes sense then, does it not, to apply the chemicals which show sensitivity to the cancer of any particular patient in the lab, meaning chemicals which are shown in the lab to destroy cancer cells. Better to apply chemicals to the cancer patient which are proven in the lab to kill cancer in the patient than to treat the patient with chemicals showing no ability to kill the cancer cells.

How can we be more precise in determining if lab results showing certain chemicals will work against cancer in the patient? Some assays may show inconsistent results , from lab to patient.

It would make sense then to take cancer tissue, cells or fluid,  to another lab, or perhaps two more labs, to determine if those labs , examining other areas of cancer sensitivity, demonstrate similar  results from the first positive lab results. Then one has confirmation that the lab results from the first examination are most likely to be effective against the cancer.

Different labs examine different areas of cancer tissue and fluids. It is important then to familiarize oneself with the many labs in the country who are examining cancer tissue and fluids. This research can be exhausting; but if one discovers a chemical match to the cancer destroying your loved one, then all that time and effort will be enormously rewarding.

There are ovarian cancer patients who have gone into remission for years, some upwards of fifteen years and better. So, there is hope, but one must be vigilant and work hard to understand the nature of cancer, how it works to kill, and what can be done to kill it.

Debate the doctor treating cancer in your loved one to determine reasons why a biopsy should  not be performed. One needs to know specific reasons why a chemo has been recommended by your doctor if that doctor refuses to do a biopsy, for   the risk of a biopsy is minimal compared to the potential result of not doing a biopsy: the death of  your family  cancer patient.