The key to successful chemical warfare is to determine the appropriate mixture of toxins that will target, isolate and annihilate the intended enemy. There is a reason it is not sanctioned by just about any country that wishes to have allies in this world. It’s nasty, the most underhanded of the underhanded - the ultimate fighting dirty. Below the belt taken to another level.
But we aren’t trying to make friends here. We need no allies in fighting the Voldermort of all illnesses. All bets are off, and whatever it takes to defeat it and save ourselves we will do. A little GI problem? Deal. Nausea? We can handle that. Rash? We have something for that, too.
The arsenal is this: sorafanib, a multikinase inhibitor that has a black belt in attacking the protein that tells a cell to regenerate. Anna, the scientist, put it well:”Tyrosine kinase is a protein on the cell wall that triggers a cascade of reactions that cause a cell to proliferate. If it gets inhibited, then it cannot tell the cell to reproduce anymore, which takes away the immortal aspect of the cancer cell. They are temperature sensitive to heat, that why (I am) advised to take lukewarm showers and avoid the sun. Excessive heat will denature the inhibitors in the drug, which would allow the cancer to spread.”
This black belt ninja (am I mixing cultures? can one BE a black belt ninja?) is now set loose in me to do what it does best - choke the very air of life of the C cells. Prepare to die!
But we aren’t trying to make friends here. We need no allies in fighting the Voldermort of all illnesses. All bets are off, and whatever it takes to defeat it and save ourselves we will do. A little GI problem? Deal. Nausea? We can handle that. Rash? We have something for that, too.
The arsenal is this: sorafanib, a multikinase inhibitor that has a black belt in attacking the protein that tells a cell to regenerate. Anna, the scientist, put it well:”Tyrosine kinase is a protein on the cell wall that triggers a cascade of reactions that cause a cell to proliferate. If it gets inhibited, then it cannot tell the cell to reproduce anymore, which takes away the immortal aspect of the cancer cell. They are temperature sensitive to heat, that why (I am) advised to take lukewarm showers and avoid the sun. Excessive heat will denature the inhibitors in the drug, which would allow the cancer to spread.”
This black belt ninja (am I mixing cultures? can one BE a black belt ninja?) is now set loose in me to do what it does best - choke the very air of life of the C cells. Prepare to die!
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