Listening for Cancer Cells 74
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, it's now possible to detect skin cancer cells present in blood samples by listening to the sound of melanoma cells. The scientists have used a method named photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick the sound of cancerous cells. This technique is so precise that it's possible to identify the spread of cancer even if there are only ten melanoma cells in a blood sample. Still, large clinical tests must be done before this method can be widely used."
Listening for Roland Piquepaille Crap (Score:1, Insightful)
Suck it Roland. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
G*D-damned anonymous nimrods! (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't care if Roland Piquepaille is a shameless whore, trying to drive hits and business to his website (although I d
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He also doesn't account for the high percentage of total stories that he used to.
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This one's go (Score:5, Funny)
This one's got the Rockinpneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flue
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Plus Darth Vader breathing noises.
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Actually, I'd bet cancer cells play the Imperial March from Star Wars. Plus Darth Vader breathing noises.
It would be nice if they did, then they'd really stand out. You'd know it was time to visit your oncologist if George Lucas sent you a C&D letter or showed up on your front step with a hammer
It's great to detect the stuff spreading, but the real trick is to catch it before it does. Santa Cruz is littered with memorials to young people who've died from malinoma. Too bad some didn't take a litt
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Actually sir, you are mistaken - I believe he is holding a walkie-talkie.
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Prediction (Score:1, Insightful)
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They also found a new way to kill the cells too (Score:4, Funny)
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Originally, they asked the RIAA to "shoo" them away. The RIAA told them to get the H out of there, and they decided to "sue" them out of there.
Talk about celling out.... (or is that shelling out?)
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The cells are a-dead with the sound of ca-a-a-ancer.
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Perhaps "The Sound of Cancer" instead of "The Sound of Silence".
Re:They also found a new way to kill the cells too (Score:5, Funny)
Ten rounds of chemo, maybe more
Tumor growing without shrinking
Pack a day, what was I thinking?
Things are going wroooong,
I'm loosing all my hair....
It's not fair
This is the sound... of Cancerrr
Moo (Score:1)
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Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Checkup (Score:1, Insightful)
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And if not, let's get this down to a portable size soon. The 23rd Century isn't far off.
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Next you'll tell me that Bones wasn't a real doctor.
For those of you wondering (Score:3, Informative)
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I did not mean to diminish the significance of this work. Certainly, it's a revolutionary technique... one that is likely to have an even wider impact in the future.
And certainly any additional test is welcome in an oncologist's arsenal. I am considering specializing in Oncology, and I am anxiously watching every development... because with every new test and treatment, Oncology steps f
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that they are the only cell types that do not die
off regularly and naturally in the human body?
No death, grow endlessly without aim or purpose:
it also seems like a good definition of nihilism.
Applicable to other cells? (Score:2, Insightful)
You know how they tag cancer cel
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You know how they tag cancer cells with a (radioactive) dye injection? Well, what if they could find a dye that responded in the same fashion. Suddenly, the technique could apply to a range of cancers.
It isn't really cells responding to dye, it's that many cancers when they spread are transported by the lymphatics system. I had a Lymphangiogram, back in June 1986 and it wasn't a very fun experience, but they made insicions in the tops of both feet after injecting some coloured dye between my toes (a v
The sound.... of cancer (Score:2)
Hello darkness my old friend,
I've come to hear from you again.
Because a paitent softly weeping,
Wants to know if cancer is creeping.
Is the sound of the cancer coming from her brain?
Will it remain?
As we listen... to the sounds... of cancer.
I've got to say, this is a pretty amazing idea. Plus it would make detecting some cancers an easy part of your yearly physical.
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"You want me to stick the speaker WHERE????"
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Reminds me of this cat [imageshack.us]
Hrm... (Score:4, Interesting)
Because of melanin, melanoma is the only type of cancer whose cells will strongly absorb all wavelengths of light, emitting ultrasounds that stand out from those of other cells.
How difficult would it be to modify melanin to produce electricity (or even sugar) from light? It sounds like it has a much wider absorption spectrum than chlorophyll, which could make things very interesting for genetic engineering and/or solar power!
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Damnit, Jim, this must be how the Breatharians do it!
Their ability to live without eating must be offset by the fact that they will die of skin cancer before they starve!
Melanoma cells required (Score:1)
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That's going to be in the Matrix prequals (Score:1)
One must wonder (Score:4, Funny)
lasers? (Score:2, Funny)
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Shhh be werwy werwy kwiet (Score:1, Funny)
what do they sound like? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is just one more good reason to eradicate cancer once and for all...
Luke, use photoacoustic detection... (Score:5, Funny)
Roland Piquepaille Blocker (Score:1)
Good news for us Basal Cell Pxs too. (Score:1)
As a basal cell carcinoma patient I stand a greater risk of developing a melanoma in the future. It is nice to hear that new tests and treatments are being developed which could save lives.
I am paying for a lifetime of fun in the sun. This month I had Mohs [wikipedia.org] surgery for a deep rooted basal cell cancer on my nose, which left a nice crater, and will receive skin grafts in a few weeks to make me handsome again. But this is a cake walk compared to melanoma.
Protect your skin.
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John Viator
Assistant Professor
Biological Engineering and Dermatology
University of Missouri, Columbia
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Well, this is good news as well. I have some pretty gnarly scars on both shoulders from excision, burn and scrape removals of BCC. Not a big deal to most men, probably, but I can see where many women and some men might be upset with the result of EBS. On the other hand, not even I can see the scar from the excision of the basal cell cyst under my right eye.
Being a neighbor, you may have heard of my doctor for the Mohs
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Kill em... (Score:2)
There was an allegedly "quack" treatment of cancer and bacteria revolving around this technique several decades ago.
Now it suddenly resurfaces... You can't stop science with misinformation and lawyers can you...
TOOTH FOR SALE (Score:1)
Pssffft... (Score:2)