Scientists reveal "a more elegant chemotherapy"
Scientists from the Tel Aviv University have revealed a new cancer treatment that kills cancer cells with "no side effects".
'This technology can extend the life expectancy of cancer patients and we hope, one day, cure the disease,' Professor Dan Peer said
The scientists also believe that cancer cells treated this way will never become active again. The technique is believed to destroy a tumour within three treatments.
In testing, hundreds of mice were involved with two of the most aggressive types of cancer. The mice who received treatment were found to have double the life expectancy of the control group, with a 30% higher survival rate.
To all those that are being treated, that are having major operations for cancer God Bless and all the best for a healthy outcome. There are so many amongst us that are going through this trauma that we never hear about they suffer in silence. They are the strong silent types of our world.
Thank those students that graduate that study for years and years to help the less fortunate that are suffering I feel sometimes they are left out in our appreciations.
Groundbreaking DNA-altering treatment kills cancer cells for the first time Comment Jeff ParsonsMonday 23 Nov 2020 12:49 pm Share this article via facebookShare this article via twitterShare this article via messenger 169 SHARES Israeli scientists led by Professor Dan Peer (L) used CRISPR Cas-9 to successfully remove cancer cells from mice (Getty) A team of Israeli scientists have used a groundbreaking DNA-altering tool to successfully kill cancer cells. The research was performed on mice at Tel Aviv University and the scientists were able to successfully destroy cancerous cells while leaving healthy ones intact. It has huge implications for cancer treatments in the future and it’s anticipated this same method could be used to stop cancer in other animals. Scientists used the CRISPR Cas-9 gene-editing system to zero in and target the cancer cells without affecting any others. They compared the technological tool to a pair of ‘microscopic scissors’ that let them cut the cancerous cells apart at DNA level.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year for their work. ‘We believe that a cancer cell treated in this way will never become active again,’ said Professor Dan Peer, whose peer-reviewed study on the Tel Aviv research was published in the Science Advances journal. Using the CRISPR Cas-9 tool was likened to using ‘microscopic scissors’ (Getty) He told the Times of Isreal there were ‘no side effects’ from the procedure, which is – in his opinion – a ‘more elegant chemotherapy’. ‘If we can use this technology, then within three treatments we can destroy a tumor. This technology can physically cut the DNA in cancerous cells, and those cells will not survive,’ he said. ‘This technology can physically cut the DNA in cancerous cells, and those cells will not survive.’ The experiment involved hundreds of mice with two aggressive forms of cancer: glioblastoma, a brain cancer, and metastatic ovarian cancer.
At the moment, the CRISPR Cas-9 is only used for rare diseases on cells that have already been removed from the body. Peer explained that this new process could eventually replace chemotherapy – an aggressive form of treatment that can have serious side effects for patients. He said that the team plan to develop this treatment for all different kinds of cancers. He estimated that it could be ready to use on humans within two years.
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Really hope their treatment results in success.