Silver bullet for cancer: Metal can kill some tumours better than chemotherapy w/ fewer side effects

[pmbug]

... British researchers now say that silver compounds are as effective at killing certain cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug, but with potentially far fewer side-effects.

They compared it to Cisplatin, currently used to treat a wide variety of cancers, but known to have harsh side effects including nausea, vomiting and even kidney damage.
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Researchers from the University of Leeds conducted lab tests which exposed breast and colon cancer cells to various silver-based chemicals over a six day period.

Results, published in journal Dalton Transactions, showed that these silver-compounds were ‘as effective as Cisplatin’ at killing cancer with potentially fewer side effects.

While the team are still unsure about how exactly silver battles cancer, they think its effectiveness may be caused by the structure surrounding silver atoms, known as its ligand.

They think this may help release the silver ion into cells when it enters the body, killing any cancer.

Study author Dr Charlotte Willans plans to spend the next year looking closely at what effect silver has on both cancerous and healthy cells, and whether it could be a safe and effective new anti-cancer drug.

She said: 'It’s certainly an exciting discovery, although I think we have a lot of work to do in the future. It opens the doors in terms of what we can do and investigate.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...umours-better-chemotherapy-fewer-effects.html

 

[h4rdware]

Articles like this only ever appear in newspapers like that - so they will never be taken seriously. Sometimes I think those things are kept going for the sole purpose of 'poisoning the well'. I would not be surprised.

Another way of looking at it of course - that they have less of a reputation to defend and therefore more willing to print things their straight-laced counterparts won't touch.

Either way, important articles only ever appear in crappy publications next to crappy articles. Only well-filtered safe stuff appears in the respected ones.

 

[drAGonfly47]

Articles like this only ever appear in newspapers like that - so they will never be taken seriously. Sometimes I think those things are kept going for the sole purpose of 'poisoning the well'. I would not be surprised.

Another way of looking at it of course - that they have less of a reputation to defend and therefore more willing to print things their straight-laced counterparts won't touch.

Either way, important articles only ever appear in crappy publications next to crappy articles. Only well-filtered safe stuff appears in the respected ones.

WOW. There, is a double edged sword.

Amazing is NOT location of publication. Content IS.

This(article) is not real estate, the article is reality and realization.

 

[ancona]

Unless Big Pharma can make billions of dollars with this, it will never go mainstream, as the big drug makers will perform studies discrediting silver as a cancer treatment.

 

[Joe King]

Sorry to dredge up such an old thread, but they may have really found a silver bullet to kill cancer.

A bacteria (E.americana) found in the guts of tree frogs was given to mice with colorectal cancer and a 100% cure rate was achieved.

The bacteria infects the tumor's cell and the body's own immune system attacks and kills the bacteria, which also kills the cancer cell it resided inside of.
....and all from one dose.

This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose

A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single treatment by both attacking cancer cells and activating the immune system. The findings point to a promising new type of cancer therapy that could one day work against many...

www.sciencedaily.com

Single Treatment Eliminated Tumors in Mice

In a mouse model of colorectal cancer, a single intravenous dose of E. americana completely eliminated tumors, producing a 100% complete response (CR) rate.

One of the most striking findings was that E. americana accumulated almost exclusively inside tumors and did not colonize healthy organs.

....the bacteria were rapidly cleared from the bloodstream, with a half life of approximately 1.2 hours, and became undetectable within 24 hours. No bacterial colonization was detected in healthy organs, including the liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, or heart.

Still in testing, but if I had cancer I'd move Heaven and Earth to get some.

If norhin' else, fly to Japan to catch me some tree frogs. Lol

 

[pmbug]

...
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
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[Viking]

I heard the scientists working on this are suicidal. According to WEF.