December 07, 2019
A Cure for Pancreatic Cancer?
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a fascinating article from the Jerusalem Post. It is claiming that Israeli researchers have cured pancreatic cancer in mice.
From the article:
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, and this would be a huge leap forward. Let us hope it can translate to human therapy.
Here is a fascinating article from the Jerusalem Post. It is claiming that Israeli researchers have cured pancreatic cancer in mice.
From the article:
A new treatment developed by Tel Aviv Universitycould induce the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, eradicating
the number of cancerous cells by up to 90% after two weeks of daily
injections of a small molecule known as PJ34.
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The study, led by Prof. Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Talia Golan’s team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, was recently published in the journal Oncotarget.Specifically, the study found that PJ34, when injected intravenously, causes the self-destruction of human cancer cells during mitosis, the scientific term for cell division.The research was conducted with xenografts, transplantation of human pancreatic cancer into immunocompromised mice. A month after being injected with the molecule daily for 14 days, "there was a reduction of 90% of pancreatic cells in the tumor,†Cohen-Armon told The Jerusalem Post. "In one mouse, the tumor completely disappeared.â€
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The study, led by Prof. Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Talia Golan’s team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, was recently published in the journal Oncotarget.Specifically, the study found that PJ34, when injected intravenously, causes the self-destruction of human cancer cells during mitosis, the scientific term for cell division.The research was conducted with xenografts, transplantation of human pancreatic cancer into immunocompromised mice. A month after being injected with the molecule daily for 14 days, "there was a reduction of 90% of pancreatic cells in the tumor,†Cohen-Armon told The Jerusalem Post. "In one mouse, the tumor completely disappeared.â€
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, and this would be a huge leap forward. Let us hope it can translate to human therapy.
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I sure wish they were calling for human volunteers to test this! The soprano in our quartet is to start chemo to battle this, at the end of the month, despite her not really having gained enough weight for it. She also needs surgery to put her digestive machinery back together -- they took it apart as part of the original surgery and she's being fed mainly through a tube. Her husband has to empty a bag every hour during the night.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 09, 2019 11:22 AM (xM2FP)
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Oh, that is awful! I'll say a prayer for her, Dana.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at December 10, 2019 06:45 AM (QgMQq)
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Thank you, Tim. Her name is Melissa O'Neill. And her husband needs a lot of strength to cope with the schedule -- he's Tom Witry.
Did we send you one of our quartet's CDs?
Did we send you one of our quartet's CDs?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 10, 2019 11:28 AM (+Vuek)
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