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You Are The BEST...
You Are Unique...
You Are
Different
All days are not same...some days are good and some are bad; All
people are not the same...some appreciate and some criticize; All
relatives are not the same...some love us and some hate us;
We give our best
to all assignments...to all projects...to every thing that we
do...to every moment of our life...to every minute of a day but
the results are not same... sometimes we succeed and some time we
fail.
There are also days of frustration and disappointments. There are
also people who harm us, hurt us and criticize us. There are also
people who accept us and others reject us.
Sometime the disappointment, frustration, fear, thought of failure
and pain of rejection is too deep and it hurt our self-esteem and
self-confidence. We feel useless, worthless and dejected.
Just during such days and such
moments look into the mirror and tell your self, "I am the BEST".
Why only during such times, everyday...once in a day you should
tell yourself, "I am the best".
Doesn't matter what the situations are;
Doesn't matter what type of people are around you; Doesn't matter
which phase of life...you are going through; You are THE BEST. You
are Special. You are Unique. You are Different. You are Lovable.
Take positives from everything. Learn from your experience. Love
yourself and love people around you. Respect yourself...for what
you are and as you are.
Today might not be your day, but be hopeful, continue to
dream...tomorrow will certainly be yours. Agreed that today is a
bit dark, look the other side...some light is coming.
Be positive. Be thoughtful. Continue Your Learning. Love yourself.
Don't let anything hurt you; Don't let people take away your
self-esteem and self-pride;
Have a great day and fantastic week ahead. Take very good care of
yourself...because you are the BEST...you are Special..you are
Unique...you are Different...You are Lovable. With lots of love
and care! Sanjeev Sharma (Blog:
http://sanjeevhimachali.blogspot.com/)
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Body's own
immune system may help kill melanoma tumors
Maria Cheng Globe&Mail
The body's own
immune system can fight the deadly cancer melanoma if scientists
can flip the system's “off” switch to “on,” two preliminary
studies suggest.
Scientists
have long sought to rev up the disease-fighting cells of the
immune system to fight melanoma. The new work addresses the other
side of the coin, the regulatory cells that normally keep
disease-fighting cells in check.
By shutting
those inhibiting cells off, scientists hope to enable the
disease-fighting cells to mount a continuous attack on the cancer.
Two new studies of that strategy were reported this week in Prague
at a European cancer research meeting.
“This is a
fundamentally different approach to treating cancer,” said Dr.
Alexander Eggermont, professor of surgical oncology at the
University of Rotterdam, Netherlands, the conference's chairman.
Dr. Eggermont was not connected to either of the skin cancer
research papers.
Advanced
melanoma is a devastating disease for which there is no effective
treatment. The average life expectancy is about nine months, and
less than 20 per cent of patients survive more than two years
after diagnosis.
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n one paper,
Dr. Jason Chesney from the J.G. Brown Cancer Center in Louisville,
Ky., reported that when patients with advanced melanoma were given
a drug combination to knock out their T-regulatory cells, tumours
shrank or remained stable in five of seven participants.
“This is a
landmark study,” said Dr. Anna Pavlick, director of the melanoma
program at New York University Medical Center's cancer institute,
who was not involved in the study. “What it shows is that by
suppressing T-regulatory cells, we can take the brakes off a
patient's immune system.”
Though Dr.
Pavlick says it's too early to change how patients are treated
based on Dr. Chesney's study alone, she believes the research
merits further study.
“It's like
having permanent chemotherapy,” said Dr. Chesney. “You're inducing
your own immune system to stick around and keep this cancer from
growing.”
In another
study presented Wednesday, Dr. Jeffrey Weber, a professor of
medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles,
described how he and colleagues were able to block a protein on
the T-regulatory cells. That inhibited them enough for the immune
system to attack cancer cells.
Out of 25
patients tested, 24 are alive after 17 months, and three are free
of cancer.
Both Dr.
Chesney and Dr. Weber say it will be years before their strategies
are sufficiently tested to know if they work on a wide scale. But
if their hypotheses prove correct, they could also be applied to
other types of cancer in which T-regulatory cells are known to
play a role, such as breast, kidney, or esophageal cancer.
Allowing the
immune system to run wild does not come without risk; doctors
admit it could lead to autoimmune diseases including hepatitis,
colitis or dermatitis. Still, most say those conditions are
manageable, and are outweighed by the prospect of beating melanoma
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