Johnny
12th October 2015, 23:35
Breakthrough by Danish scientists offers hope of cure for cancer
A new Danish treatment can kill 95 percent of all cancer cells, say researchers, who expect to be able to test the method on people in a few years.
- We have found a way to hit all types of cancer. If this is going to work, will be able to offer treatment to people where no treatment is today.
So says Professor Ali Salanti from the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen to DR News.
Together with researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada, his team found something that looks like the Holy Grail of medicine: A possible cure for cancer.
Kills 95 percent of all cancer cells
The discovery came a little random. While the researchers tried to find a way to cure so-called 'pregnancy malaria', which sits on the placenta in pregnant women, they found out that malaria protein also got stuck on cancer cells.
The researchers gave the idea of linking a toxin in a malaria protein, and then use the protein to identify cancer cells.
- In this way works malaria protein like a heat-seeking missile. It goes simply into and bind to cancer tissue, and then makes the toxin cancer death, says Ali Salanti.
Since then, the researchers tested the hypothesis on several test animals with different types of cancer. And the potential is not to be mistaken:
- Our data from the last few years suggest that the treatment is effective against 95 percent of all cancers. So that is something that hits very, very broad, he told BBC News.
Will create an inexpensive cancer cure
If successful, this research team to develop a cancer treatment that works on people, so the treatment is not only reserved for the rich countries' most wealthy citizens, promises Ali Salanti.
- There are a lot of big commercial interests when speaking about a potential general cure for cancer. But our goal is to make it here, so it will be a cheap product. It is our desire scenario.
He expects that scientists are ready to test the new cancer drug on people within the next four years.
If the treatment works, it will not only be able to cure almost all cancers. It will also be an effective vaccine against malaria - a disease that kills one child every minute.
Source: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/gennembrud-fra-danske-forskere-giver-haab-om-kur-mod-kraeft
See also: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2815%2900334-7
Johnny :)
A new Danish treatment can kill 95 percent of all cancer cells, say researchers, who expect to be able to test the method on people in a few years.
- We have found a way to hit all types of cancer. If this is going to work, will be able to offer treatment to people where no treatment is today.
So says Professor Ali Salanti from the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen to DR News.
Together with researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada, his team found something that looks like the Holy Grail of medicine: A possible cure for cancer.
Kills 95 percent of all cancer cells
The discovery came a little random. While the researchers tried to find a way to cure so-called 'pregnancy malaria', which sits on the placenta in pregnant women, they found out that malaria protein also got stuck on cancer cells.
The researchers gave the idea of linking a toxin in a malaria protein, and then use the protein to identify cancer cells.
- In this way works malaria protein like a heat-seeking missile. It goes simply into and bind to cancer tissue, and then makes the toxin cancer death, says Ali Salanti.
Since then, the researchers tested the hypothesis on several test animals with different types of cancer. And the potential is not to be mistaken:
- Our data from the last few years suggest that the treatment is effective against 95 percent of all cancers. So that is something that hits very, very broad, he told BBC News.
Will create an inexpensive cancer cure
If successful, this research team to develop a cancer treatment that works on people, so the treatment is not only reserved for the rich countries' most wealthy citizens, promises Ali Salanti.
- There are a lot of big commercial interests when speaking about a potential general cure for cancer. But our goal is to make it here, so it will be a cheap product. It is our desire scenario.
He expects that scientists are ready to test the new cancer drug on people within the next four years.
If the treatment works, it will not only be able to cure almost all cancers. It will also be an effective vaccine against malaria - a disease that kills one child every minute.
Source: http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/gennembrud-fra-danske-forskere-giver-haab-om-kur-mod-kraeft
See also: http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/abstract/S1535-6108%2815%2900334-7
Johnny :)