Posted on 03/14/2006 1:04:59 PM PST by Ben Mugged
A team of scientists from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School has reported killing melanoma s in mice using lightning-fast, high-powered jolts of electricity.
The researchers expect their paper to be placed online Wednesday in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications .
It's the culmination of at least eight years of work seeking possible health benefits from short, high-voltage doses of electricity. The results, the researchers think , eventually could translate into an effective cancer treatment that carries no side effects.
"We've never had a tumor that didn't respond," said the lead researcher, Richard Nuccitelli , an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Old Dominion. "Every tumor has shrunk. We know we can eliminate them with the right conditions."
The electric bursts often disrupted the blood flow to the tumor cells and shrunk their nuclei by 50 percent, Nuccitelli said.
The scientists found that they could kill the tumors with hundreds of electrical pulses in two treatments given two to three weeks apart. Each burst of electricity carried 4,000 volts and lasted less than one-millionth of a second.
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the ultimate zot.
short, high-voltage doses of electricity.
Anyone want to pee on the electric fence?
I guess electro-shock therapy wasn't such a bad thing after all...
Great. Now we'll have to re-think the Zot!
Probably better than chemotherapy or radiation treatment in terms of quality of life for the patient.
It does a number on trolls as well.
Having had cancer and radiation therapy I'd see this as a promising sign.
My boss got a jolt of electricity yesterday morning. Wonder if he wants to try it again in a couple of weeks. :^)
The scientists said they need to hone their techniques before they can experiment on people. Doing that, they said, requires a federal grant, which they have not yet won.
What does the cancer foundation spend all it's money on?
You'll never get any takers.
If you asked 'Bet you can't pee over the electric fence' some idiot will prove he can.
So if I've taken several hits from 120,230 and 440 over my lifetime, does that lessen my chances of becoming a cancer patient?
That's a lot of voltage.....
Calling Dr. Zot!
Makes sense ~ radiation treatments work at all simply because cancer cells are more sensitive to radiation than are normal cells. Electricity, same sort of thing at a far different frequency and power level, should have the same effect.
Drugs
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Cattle prod? Cure for colon cancer????
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