Posted on 01/15/2019 10:39:29 AM PST by Red Badger
Imagine if you could turn aggressive cancer cells into harmless fat.
Scientists in Switzerland say they've done just that, in a new study in mice. By taking advantage of the "plasticity," or adaptability, of certain cancer cells during metastasis, the researchers were able to coax breast cancer cells in mice into becoming fat cells.
The scientists accomplished this using a combination of two drugs, both of which are already approved for use in humans by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The treatment didn't convert all of the cancer cells into fat cells, but it did stop the cancer's metastasis, or spread to other parts of the body, the researchers said. [10 Do's and Don'ts to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer]
The work is very preliminary, and it's unclear if the findings will apply to people or to other types of cancers. But because the study used two drugs already approved by the FDA, it "may be possible" that the findings also apply to humans, the researchers wrote in their paper, published today (Jan. 14) in the journal Cancer Cell.
If future studies confirm the new work, the researchers believe that the therapy could be used in combination with conventional chemotherapy "to suppress both primary tumor growth and the formation of deadly metastases," senior study author Gerhard Christofori, a professor at the University of Basel's Department of Biomedicine in Switzerland, said in a statement. Turning cancer into fat
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Turning breast cancer into boob fat?
Sounds like science gone wrong.
don’t most women want bigger boobs? Sounds like a win win situation-
They want mouse boobs?...or are these folks just boobs?
Turning breast cancer into more ..breast. How’s that a bad thing ?
lol who knows, given today’s ‘gender confusion’- perhaps they wish to be transpecies too
That sounds like science gone right to me. What good is science if it doesn't save and promote bigger boobs.
This could save a lot of lives if it works.
It’s good to be a mouse these days.
My body has the uncanny ability to change even a picture of ice cream into fat.
That could be your ‘SUPERPOWER’!..................
Ney ney! Sounds like progress .. a twofer in fact: Stop cancer enhance breasts!
All the more reason to just give in and enjoy the Butter Pecan ...
>That sounds like science gone right to me. What good is science if it doesn’t save and promote bigger boobs.
Just wait until this becomes such a thing that they start selling abesto-mercury bras.
Yeah, sure is. They give you a horrible disease, then perhaps cure you, and finish up by cutting off your head and examining your corpse to see how the cure worked. Great.
But what would it do for colon cancer?
Had a 6-oz Dilly Bar today. I’ll probably gain 2 pounds from it. Whoever said matter can’t be created from nothing has never met my metabolism.
What are the 2 drugs?
Next time you go to a Dairy Queen for a Dilly Bar, ask for the Double Dilly. I invented it at the Gatlinburg DQ decades ago ... it is the regular Dilly dipped in the butterscotch topping. To get one, it is a special order.
I’ll walk in looking like Steve Buscemi and walk out looking like Jackie Gleason.
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