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[quote]Kim P
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posted July 11, 2007 11:17 AM
i just read a whole bunch of stuff about a hospital in beijing that is curing patients with advance head and neck cancers. one guy was Richard Weissenborn and there also treating other cancers too with this GENDICINE. I found a whole bunch of contact info on the doctor doing it hes from john hopkins DR LI DINGGANG. well i hope this helps someone on here.


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KIM P
Posts: 3 | From: MICHIGAN | Registered: Jun 2007 | IP: Logged[/quote]Kim --

An article about the Chinese company that developed Gendicine was in the July 5 Washington Post.

The drug, a gene-therapy treatment, is at the center of an intellectual property dispute, with a US drug company contending that, according to the article, "the Chinese drug is basically stolen property, rushed to market with inadequate testing and in violation of patent rights." The head of the Chinese company, a former researcher at UCLA, responds that the drug "is the latest accomplishment of Chinese genetic engineering, built on information publicly available in medical literature." Studies on the drug have so far been published only in Chinese-language medical literature.

The director of the hospital where the treatment is offered, Li Dinggang, a former researcher at Johns Hopkins medical school, is quoted as saying that "no one can guarantee anything" -- patients, he says, come to his hospital when other options have been exhausted and their cancer is advanced.

According to the Post, Weissenborn, who is from Houston, began treatment in Beijing last fall for cancer that had spread from his tongue to his lymph nodes and throat. Initial scans after treatment were clear, the article says, but the last paragraph notes that when he returned to Beijing for a checkup in March, it was found that his cancer had returned.

-- Leslie