'Breakthrough' Cancer Discovery Could Treat 90% Of Tumours
Posted: 14 Oct 2015, 15:38'Breakthrough' Cancer Discovery Could Treat 90% Of Tumours, Scientists Claim
The Huffington Post UK | By Natasha Hinde
Posted: 14/10/2015 09:54 BST
Scientists have accidentally stumbled across a "breakthrough treatment" that could kill nine in 10 cancer tumours.
In the hunt for a vaccine against malaria in pregnant women, scientists have discovered that malaria proteins can be used to attack the majority of tumour types.
So far, trials have only been conducted on mice. Researchers aim to begin human trials within four years.
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of British Columbia were researching a vaccine to fight malaria in pregnant women when they discovered that armed malaria proteins can kill cancer.
The carbohydrate that the malaria parasite attaches itself to in the placenta in pregnant women is identical to a carbohydrate found in cancer cells.
In the laboratory, scientists have created the protein that the malaria parasite uses to adhere to the placenta and added a toxin.
The malaria protein and toxin combination seeks out the cancer cells and is absorbed. The toxin is released inside the cancer cells and then kills them.
This process has been witnessed in cell cultures and in mice with cancer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10 ... 91514.html
The Huffington Post UK | By Natasha Hinde
Posted: 14/10/2015 09:54 BST
Scientists have accidentally stumbled across a "breakthrough treatment" that could kill nine in 10 cancer tumours.
In the hunt for a vaccine against malaria in pregnant women, scientists have discovered that malaria proteins can be used to attack the majority of tumour types.
So far, trials have only been conducted on mice. Researchers aim to begin human trials within four years.
Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of British Columbia were researching a vaccine to fight malaria in pregnant women when they discovered that armed malaria proteins can kill cancer.
The carbohydrate that the malaria parasite attaches itself to in the placenta in pregnant women is identical to a carbohydrate found in cancer cells.
In the laboratory, scientists have created the protein that the malaria parasite uses to adhere to the placenta and added a toxin.
The malaria protein and toxin combination seeks out the cancer cells and is absorbed. The toxin is released inside the cancer cells and then kills them.
This process has been witnessed in cell cultures and in mice with cancer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10 ... 91514.html