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The $20 treatment that could shrink cancer tumours

The $20 treatment that could shrink cancer tumours

The $20 treatment that could shrink cancer tumours
Sep 27, 2021 1 min, 5 secs

Australian researchers have shown an unconventional cancer treatment that costs $20, has the ability to shrink tumours and make patients more comfortable.

Led by the Australian National University, the treatment injects dead bacteria into tumours which then helps to kick-start the immune system.

Aude Fahrer from the Research School of Biology at ANU is a cancer immunologist and has been working on the project for 12 years. .

“So, by injecting the bacteria directly into the cancer, we drew in immune cells, trying to fool them into reacting against the cancer.

“Once the immune cells multiplied, they travelled around the body, and not only attacked the cancer at the injection site but in other parts too.”.

“We don’t want to give false hope but essentially we’ve shown this is effective in a proportion of animals, it’s safe in human cancer patients and it looks like it can help patients, even at this very, very late stage of their disease.

The injection contains a slow-release solution of dead mycobacteria, a class of bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

However, a live form of the bacteria is used in the treatment of bladder cancer.

The injections worked in those with mast cell cancer (immune tumours), it extended life in those with metastatic breast cancer and didn’t work in those with colorectal cancer

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