Melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, is diagnosed in around 8,000 Canadians every year.Researchers may have found a way to save the skin of melanoma patients by using antibiotics to target and eliminate the power plants fuelling the evasive cancer cells., successfully used bacteria-destroying medicine to exploit a vulnerability that arises in cancer cells as they try to survive cancer therapy in mice.
“In order to survive the cancer treatment, however, those inactive cells need to keep their ‘power plants’ — the mitochondria — switched on at all times. As mitochondria derive from bacteria that, over time, started living inside cells, they are very vulnerable to a specific class of antibiotics. This is what gave us the idea to use these antibiotics as anti-melanoma agents.”
. The disease, which originates in the skin’s melanocyte cells, can lead to cancerous tumours capable of destroying surrounding tissue and spreading to other parts of the body. Roughly 1,300 Canadians die from the disease every year, with the majority of diagnoses and deaths occurring in men, most likely because melanomas tend to develop on the extremities of women as opposed to the trunk, head or neck of men. In Canada, the five-year net survival rate for melanoma skin cancer is 88 per cent.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
healthing_ca 8,000? a number so low only covid is lower... *if you take out 'suicide is covid related' where's the flu again?
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