Yesterday I had shared with you “The prosthetic hand (bionichand) with sensory feedback”. Today I am going to share with you one of the
great invention in medical science which was a big worry for doctors from a
long time (“The cancer”).
Finally, the Canadian researchers claim to have made a radical
discovery in medicine and namely in cancer treatment. Doctors at the Ottawa
Hospital Research Institute have got inspiring results while testing on
patients a virus that hunts down and treats cancer. An intravenous injection
allowed the JX-594 virus to spread in the bloodstream and infect tumor cells in
the body, leaving healthy tissue unharmed.
The institute’s cancer scientist, Dr. John Bell said that “in
six out of the eight patients given the highest doses, the tumors stopped or shrived
growing. The 23 patients on trial had advanced cancers that no longer responded
to existing treatments but the treatment was otherwise well tolerated.
Professor Nick Lemoine rom the Cancer Research UK says,
“This new study is important because it demonstrates that a virus previously
used safely to vaccinate against smallpox can now be modified to reach cancers
through the bloodstream – even after cancer has spread widely through the
patient’s body.”
However beside the above given revolutions I want to add
some facts and figures. First of all there are 200 different types of known
cancers that affect humans. Approximately 5 to 10% cancers can be directly damage
genes or combine with existing cells to cause cancer and 90 to 95% can be
caused by the environmental diseases.
I hope scientists, in near future, will find such a virus
that can get rid of all the types of cancers.
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