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Related: About this forumBreakthrough Cancer-Killing Treatment Has No Side-Effects, Says MU Researcher
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2013/0403-breakthrough-cancer-killing-treatment-has-no-side-effects-says-mu-researcher/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Breakthrough Cancer-Killing Treatment Has No Side-Effects, Says MU Researcher[/font]
[font size=4]New chemistry could cure human cancers when funding is secured[/font]
April 03, 2013
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Timothy Wall, walltj@missouri.edu, 573-882-3346
[font size=3]COLUMBIA, Mo. Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne. Hawthornes team has developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission in mice. This innovative treatment produced none of the harmful side-effects of conventional chemo and radiation cancer therapies. Clinical trials in humans could begin soon after Hawthorne secures funding.
Cancer cells grow faster than normal cells and in the process absorb more materials than normal cells. Hawthornes team took advantage of that fact by getting cancer cells to take in and store a boron chemical designed by Hawthorne. When those boron-infused cancer cells were exposed to neutrons, a subatomic particle, the boron atom shattered and selectively tore apart the cancer cells, sparing neighboring healthy cells.
The physical properties of boron made Hawthornes technique possible. A particular form of boron will split when it captures a neutron and release lithium, helium and energy. Like pool balls careening around a billiards table, the helium and lithium atoms penetrate the cancer cell and destroy it from the inside without harming the surrounding tissues.
A wide variety of cancers can be attacked with our BNCT technique, Hawthorne said. The technique worked excellently in mice. We are ready to move on to trials in larger animals, then people. However, before we can start treating humans, we will need to build suitable equipment and facilities. When it is built, MU will have the first radiation therapy of this kind in the world.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1303437110[font size=4]New chemistry could cure human cancers when funding is secured[/font]
April 03, 2013
Story Contact(s):
Timothy Wall, walltj@missouri.edu, 573-882-3346
[font size=3]COLUMBIA, Mo. Cancer painfully ends more than 500,000 lives in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The scientific crusade against cancer recently achieved a victory under the leadership of University of Missouri Curators Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne. Hawthornes team has developed a new form of radiation therapy that successfully put cancer into remission in mice. This innovative treatment produced none of the harmful side-effects of conventional chemo and radiation cancer therapies. Clinical trials in humans could begin soon after Hawthorne secures funding.
Cancer cells grow faster than normal cells and in the process absorb more materials than normal cells. Hawthornes team took advantage of that fact by getting cancer cells to take in and store a boron chemical designed by Hawthorne. When those boron-infused cancer cells were exposed to neutrons, a subatomic particle, the boron atom shattered and selectively tore apart the cancer cells, sparing neighboring healthy cells.
The physical properties of boron made Hawthornes technique possible. A particular form of boron will split when it captures a neutron and release lithium, helium and energy. Like pool balls careening around a billiards table, the helium and lithium atoms penetrate the cancer cell and destroy it from the inside without harming the surrounding tissues.
A wide variety of cancers can be attacked with our BNCT technique, Hawthorne said. The technique worked excellently in mice. We are ready to move on to trials in larger animals, then people. However, before we can start treating humans, we will need to build suitable equipment and facilities. When it is built, MU will have the first radiation therapy of this kind in the world.
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Breakthrough Cancer-Killing Treatment Has No Side-Effects, Says MU Researcher (Original Post)
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Apr 2013
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still_one
(92,136 posts)1. If I had a nickel over the years for how many mice have been cured of cancer I would be a
Rich person
I hope this works out for humans
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)2. Horseshit
Every treatment has potential side effects and hazards. For this joker to claim that conducting nuclear fission inside the human body can't possibly have any is ludicrous.
goldent
(1,582 posts)3. I wish them all the success in the world