Arsenic helps women in the treatment of breast cancer
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Arsenic is a fairly strong poison that has been known to mankind for a long time, but recent studies of scientists have shown that it can be a cure. As it turned out, arsenic can help reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer. Researchers from one of the universities in California have conducted work, during which they recorded half the death rate due to cancer using arsenic.
The work of specialists was conducted in Chile, where the natural level of arsenic is increased. As a result of the studies, the scientists found that the poison helps to cope with breast cancer in a group of women under 60 years old (in this category, mortality decreased by 70%).
In the late 1950s, one of the cities of Chile switched to a geothermal spring located in the Andes to provide the inhabitants with drinking water. Analyzes showed that in 1 liter of such water there are more than 800 micrograms of dangerous poison, which is 80 times higher than the minimum recommended dosage.
In the 1970s, after the appearance of symptoms of arsenic poisoning among some residents, the authorities decided to build a treatment plant. However, until this time, arsenic has brought some people who consume poisonous water with significant health benefits.
The Stanford Cancer Institute found that arsenic destroys cancer cells, but healthy cells are unprotected from it, which also leads to their death.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States approved the use of arsenic trioxide for the treatment of one of the rare forms of leukemia. It is likely that in the near future arsenic will be an auxiliary tool in the treatment of breast cancer in women.
Currently, specialists are preparing clinical trials in which patients with advanced breast cancer should participate.
Cancer today is the most common disease, which kills thousands of lives each year. Specialists are trying to develop new effective methods of treatment and prevention of cancer. For example, in 2015, tests can be started against skin cancer.
The company Ascend has developed a vaccine that will help the patient's immunity to overcome the disease.
For example, with basal cell carcinoma, the vaccine should be injected into the tumor. At the heart of the drug is a genetically altered virus that overlaps the food to the tumor cells, which leads to their death.
A vaccine against breast cancer will help patients in the early stages of the disease who have undergone surgery. The drug will enable immunity independently to build protection against the spread of metastases and relapse of the disease.
As the first tests of the new drug showed, in 10 years after a successful operation, cases of relapse are observed only in 6% of cases. Experts are sure that vaccination is an excellent alternative to hormonal replacement therapy, which is currently used and shows effectiveness only within a year after the operation.
According to experts, it is during this period that it is possible to monitor the oncological process and carry out vaccination.
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