Cancer Cure News 2017: Study Shows Hibernation Alleviates Radiotherapy Effects, Stops Tumor Growth
A new study claims that placing terminal cancer patients in hibernation can alleviate the adverse effects of radiotherapy and can even cure cancer. Scientists have discovered that inactivity actually guards the body against the bad effects of the treatment and thwarts the growth of tumors.
With this new development, oncologists can now apply higher doses of radiation to destroy cancer cells without causing that much harm to the cancer patient. Italian scientists say that this valuable discovery is especially helpful for patients who have terminal cancer.
According to Professor Marco Durante of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, more than half of all cancer patients in the world have advanced cancer and already have multiple metastases in their bodies. Such conditions are beyond cure since it is impossible to conduct a surgery everywhere in the body and kill off all cancer cells via radiation. However, treatment allegedly becomes possible with hibernation.
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"But if you could put the patient into synthetic torpor you could stop the cancer growing. It gives you more time. You also increase radio resistance. So you can treat all the different metastases without killing the patient. You wake up the patients and they are cured. That is our ambition," said Durante.
According to Durante, putting a patient in a resting state for around a week will help improve the ability of his body to repair DNA damage. Moreover, hibernation will help reduce his gene activity and protein synthesis to a much slower pace, which is very important in treating cancer.
The idea of hibernation as an effective cancer cure follows years of research on animals, particularly rats. Durante said a group of scientists are currently conducting careful lab experiments to confirm the effectiveness of hibernation as a means to cure human cancer.
