mice began to develop Sheldon Lipshutz, a general surgeon and
a pancreatic cancer. author of 10 Things You Need to Know
Then we began treat- Before You See the Doctor.
ing them with heart “I’ve noticed in over 50 years as a
hormones using little surgeon that you never hear of anyone
pumps that work like with cancer of the heart,” Lipshutz tells
insulin pumps. We Newsmax. “[It] must secrete something
treated them with all that keeps cancer from forming, but we
four of the peptide hor- haven’t known what.”
mones for a month.” Once human trials commence, things
Up to 80 percent of could move quickly if results are positive,
the pancreatic cancers says Vesely, who believes the Food and
in the mice disappeared Drug Administration would fast-track
and never returned. the drug to treat cancers against which
“In every case, even modern medicine has little to offer. The
in those mice whose new treatment could be available in as
cancers weren’t com- little as three years Veseley says.
pletely eliminated, “We don’t know if this is going to
they shrank to less work in humans yet,” he says. “But once
than 10 percent,” he we make one tumor go away in just one
says. “All of these mice human, we’re going to make some of all
also lived a normal life cancer in humans go away, because it
span and died of old works on all cancers.”
age. We turned a fatal
cancer into a chronic
disease.”
THE
In the study, heart
hormones appeared
DEADLIEST
to work their magic
without any of che-
CANCERSRS
motherapy’s toxic side
HEART HORMONE PEPTIDES OFFER
effects.
a ray of hope to patients with cancers that
“In the lab, we gave are extremely diffi cult to treat, such as
these peptide hor-
these.
mones 24 hours a day
Pancreatic: Pancreatic cancer has one
for an entire month,”
of the lowest survival rates of all cancers.
About 37,000 Americans are diagnosed
Vesely says. “We also
with this form each year, and about 33,000
gave them at the con- of them will die from their disease. Only 5
centration which elimi-
percent survive fi ve years.
nates cancers growing
Lung: Lung cancer kills about 160,000
in living tissue, all
Americans each year and 60 percent will
die within a year of diagnosis. 85 percent
without side effects.
die within fi ve.
ian, breast, melanomas, glioblastoma of These hormones are made in your own Glioblastoma multiforme: GBM is the
the brain — almost every big cancer you body by your own heart, and your body
most common type of brain tumor and
TE/ISTOCKPHOTO
can think of.” recognizes them as normal.”
the most aggressive. The median time of
Next, heart hormones were used to The heart hormones worked in other
survival after diagnosis without treatment
is just three months. Only one in 20 patients
treat cancer in animals. The research- types of cancers in mice, too. “Two-
will survive for more than three years.
ers used mice that were programmed thirds of breast cancers went away with Melanoma: Almost 60,000 people are
genetically to grow human cancers. no surgery and never came back,” Vesely
diagnosed with melanoma each year and
“We put about a million cancer says.
the majority die within fi ve years.
cells in each mouse,” Vesely says. “The Human trials are next on the agenda,
Ovarian: Around 22,000 new cases of
ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year,
fi rst cancer we treated was pancreatic, and efforts are under way to raise the
and about 15,000 women die from the
T
/© 2008 JUPITERIMAGES CORP. / CIGARET
because it’s the worst of our common $25 million for those tests, Vesely says. disease. The fi ve-year survival rate is less
HEAR cancers. Within three or four weeks, the Vesely is on the right track, says Dr.
than 55 percent.
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