Posted on 05/30/2021 11:23:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BRIT scientists have invented a “sugar bomb” which destroys greedy cancer cells in seconds.
Tumours need food in order to spread so gobble up the sweet “bomb” which contains a drug.
Brit scientists invent 'sugar bomb' which destroys greedy A light shone on those cancer cells detonates the “explosive”, known as SeNBD.
It works because cancers grow fast and need more food than healthy cells, which are not harmed by the drug.
Scientists hope the sugar treatment will boost survival and spare patients damaging chemotherapy.
So far, it has only been used on glioblastoma, the most common brain cancer. In tests, it destroyed the tumour sugar-craving cells in seconds.
The method is being adapted to fight cancers that prefer fat or protein, Nature Communications reported.
Breast, prostate and lung cancers could be combated by the approach.
Researcher Sam Benson, of Edinburgh University, said of the sugar bomb technique: “The drug absorbs the energy from the light.
“It uses the energy to weaponise the oxygen in the cells, killing them from within.”
The Brain Tumour Charity said the method could be an “innovative new way to target aggressive cancer cells while sparing healthy cells”.
Of course!
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“Google search”....shame on you! ;-) “Duck Duck Go” or “Startpage”!!
Another news source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40302509.html
After some digging:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research/people/principal-investigators/prof-marc-vendrell
The actual research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22578-2
If I had ANY cancer, I’d volunteer in a heartbeat.
When oncologists suspect cancer they locate it with a “PET scan”. The patient fasts overnight, then techs feed the patient radio-actively-tagged sugar. Then the techs take radio images which light up in places where cancer devours the sugar. This should tell us something.
Drago wrote:
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“Google search”....shame on you! ;-) “Duck Duck Go” or “Startpage”!!
Another news source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40302509.html
After some digging:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research/people/principal-investigators/prof-marc-vendrell
The actual research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22578-2
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Thank you for the links !
Color me jaded, but I don’t think the CDC and FDA and big pharma want treatments that are actually that easy and effective.
There’s not enough money to be made in them.
Healthy people don’t need drugs so there’s no incentive for big pharma and the medical community to actually CURE people as opposed to just treating them.
That aside, I do know some individual doctors who would be happy to actually be able to help people and actually see them cured. But they are too few and far between.
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I pray this is a promising treatment that comes to fruition, but I have been fooled so many times by promises of upcoming cancer treatments, I have become jaded and skeptical.
Let me know what this is in use and works. Untl then, I just don’t care. I am full to the brim with cancer treatment promises that have never come true for the past 50 years. I won’t be fooled again. This is like the boy who cried wolf.
I am not blaming the OP. The article is interesting in that this is a completely new thing I have never heard of before. It is definitly interesting, but I just refuse to get my hopes up for it after being fooled 100 times in the past 50 years over one promising treatment after another, that never came true.
Like I said, let me know when this is saving lives and I will start to pay attention. Until then, this is just another disappointment in a long list.
Wow, if true.
Thank you. Will check them out. For some reason duckduckgo is slow for me...but you are correct about google..
A very valid question....I suppose you cut a slit through the scalp and skull and slide a light emitting ribbon in between the brain surface and the skull in the area of the tumor and light'er up.
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Flexible_Glass_Substrates_Enable_Large-Scale/a63967
To some extent tissue does allow light to pass. (close your eyes and look at the sun, or see how much light from a flashlight can be seen through your hand.
If you need it over a large area I suppose you pull back a flap of scalp, get your bone saw out and remove enough skull to allow direct access to the brain surface and your light source.
I agree. The chemo industry likely has bought and paid for centuries of job security. I've followed these 'cancer cure' stories for 4 decades, and they keep disappearing.
Years ago, researchers found that injecting MS afflicted mice with beta amyloid cured the mice. The researchers have spent the last 8 years trying to figure out why it works. They don't care that it works. They want to create an artificial version for $$$$.
I knew a few people who worked in pharma (chemists, researchers) who really did care.
But, yeah, the companies themselves profit only if people are ill (but deemed “treatable”), and the treatments are so expensive.
They must be very frustrated.
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