Posted on 01/09/2020 8:39:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Isreali researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) found a molecule that can induce the self-destruction of pancreatic cancer cells.
The research was conducted in human pancreatic cancer that was transplanted into mice.
The mice were treated with a molecule called PJ34, which affects human cancer cells. This molecule causes an anomaly during the duplication of human cancer cells and prompts their self-destruction, and the treated cells died during their multiplication process.
The treatment reduced the number of cancer cells by 90% in the developed tumors a month after it was administered.
Pancreatic cancer is resistant to all existing treatments and patients have slim chances of surviving five years after being diagnosed.
The research holds great potential for the development of a new effective therapy to treat one of the most aggressive cancers in humans.
The study was led by Professor Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Talia Golan’s team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center.
The research was recently published in the leading medical journal Oncotarget.
Cohen-Armon explained that the new study improves on a breakthrough made two years ago when the self-destruction mechanism in cancer cells was discovered.
“In research published in 2017, we discovered a mechanism that causes the self-destruction of human cancer cells during their duplication (mitosis) without affecting normal cells. We have now harnessed this information to efficiently eradicate human pancreatic cancer cells in xenografts (human organs transplanted in animals). The current results were obtained using a small molecule that evokes this self-destruction mechanism in a variety of human cancer cells.” She said.
“It is important to note that no adverse effects were observed, and there were no changes in the weight gain of the mice, nor in their behavior,” she added.
The mechanism acts efficiently in additional types of cancer, including types resistant to current therapies. The molecule is now being tested in pre-clinical trials, according to FDA regulations, before clinical trials begin.
RE: The research was conducted in human pancreatic cancer that was transplanted into mice.
Once again, we have already found the cure for cancer -— IN MICE !!
The animal rights people should be screaming about how terrible this is just about now....
How about Prostate?
Promising, but not there yet. “Maybe in ten years we will finally have a cure for cancer” so the sad saying goes.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg??
I think RBG has been given this product as she claims to have beaten stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Thanks for posting. Interesting. My uncle died from it, as did my best friend from childhood. Health/life BUMP!
R:E I think RBG has been given this product as she claims to have beaten stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Actually, the articles I read about her beating pancreatic cancer attributed the success to pinpoint radio therapy.
bttt
Our military technology is in advance of what we publicly admit.
Based on RBG and Jimmy Carter, I suspect that our medical technology is also in advance of what we publicly admit. I further think that President Trump may want to expose just how advanced we are. Which may cause some researchers to decide to come forward sooner rather than later.
Too late for Patrick Swayze.......................
Was RGB a rat they tested it in?
There is far, FAR too much money to be made.
My first thought was about those who hate Israel and the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions (BDS) crowd.
Israel has developed some of the most advanced technologies for curing diseases and alleviating human suffering in the world. This country has also developed advanced water filtration systems that convert sea water to drinking water.
Why would you want this country to STOP doing what it’s doing by your BDS B.S.? Someday, the cures they developed will be needed by YOU!!
And two out of my Grandparents and many other family and friends :'(
How many mice a day to I have to eat to do me good?
A cure is right around the corner.
And Michael Landon.
How come we never read “m*slim researchers find cure for...”?
Too busy screaming about pork on mosque doors, raping women, hurling gays off roofs, and slicing infidel necks.
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