(CelebNMusic247-News) Sea Sponge Cures Breast Cancer
In 2010 it was frist brought to everyone’s attention that a drug derived from sea sponges can extend the lives of breast cancer patients whose cancer had come back.
There are many reasons to keep the planet clean, especially the ocean because people and the planet are one. Keeping the planet healthy and the oceans clean can help us survive in more ways than people believe. Going Green is necessary for our survival to live breath and find new cures for cancer and hopefully more diseases like HIV, dementia, Parkinson’s, Lukemia, memory loss, Ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer and more…
Our ocean are huge, with a vast world that we’ve not explored, but our survival may be living under the water right before our eyes, but if we keep dumping garbage, plastic bottles, trash and urinating in the water does not help. We are our own demise and need to realize we need a clean world, clean sky, clean rain forest and clean water to live because you never know what sponge or urchin may be holding a cure for extending our lives.
Well its only three years later and after many test studies doctors have found a new method of hope for women fighting the battle of breast cancer. The therapy can take as little as 5 minutes instead of the lengthy 2-4 hour treatment for chemotherapy. The new cure for breast cancer patients is called Halloran and can help patients whose cancer had come back –despite as many as five rounds of chemotherapy — by an average of two and a half months.
Eribulin Increases Survival for Patients Who Have Already Undergone Chemo
WebMD reported this in 2010:
In the study of over 750 women, those who took the experimental drug eribulin lived an average of about 13 months, compared with about 10 1/2 months for women who did not take the drug.
While a few months might not sound like much, it can be a huge gain for seriously ill patients facing an imminent risk of dying, say doctors studying the drug.
“I’ve had women whose outlook is poor, facing [an average] survival time of about 10 months, tell me, ‘I just want to make it to next year to see my child’s fourth birthday, or my son’s wedding,'” says study head Christopher Twelves, MD, PhD, of St. James Hospital in Leeds, England.
“Now there is a drug that we can add to their limited options,” he tells WebMD.
Twelves presented results of the late-stage phase III trial at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He consults for Eisai, which makes eribulin and funded the study. – Read more here…
In 2011 it was revealed that the pseudoceratinapurpurea sea sponge has a naturally-occurring chemical that blocks components involved in cancer cell division and growth
Psammaplin A is a naturally occurring chemical found in the sea sponge that has been found to block several components that are involved in the growth and division of cancer cells. Dr Matthew Fucher and his team at Imperial College London have developed a new, and inexpensive way of manufacturing psammaplin A, and is using synthetic variations of the chemical to better understand its anti-cancer properties, which will help them in future efforts to create anti-cancer drugs.
Biological studies revealed compounds from the synthetic psammaplin A block the enzyme “histone deacetylase 1” (HDAC1, class I). with preliminary results showing that the synthetic variants are actually more potent than those occurring in nature.
“New chemical routes towards the natural product psammaplin A were developed with the particular view to preparing diverse variants for biological assessment. These routes utilize cheap and commercially available starting materials, and allowed access to psammaplin A variants not accessible via currently reported methods,” says Dr Fuchter.
Deep sea organisms are commonly used in research into many diseases, including malaria and cancer. The researchers say that knowledge gained from these experiments will assist subsequent drug design efforts, and has the potential to inspire new anti-cancer drugs.
“Several highly effective cancer drugs were first discovered as natural compounds. However, wonderful as Nature is, she is only half-way there when it comes to beating cancer. Often scientists can improve upon Nature’s handiwork, by tweaking the chemical structure of these molecules – just as Dr Fuchter has discovered with psammaplin A,” said Dr Mark Matfield, AICR’s scientific coordinator.
And in 2012 NBC News continued the revelating new therapy for Breast Cancer patients to rid them of the disease.
r planet as we mark earth week at nbc universal with an example of how connected we are to the environment. effective cancer treatments are being discovered. more than that, their building blocks come from the ocean, which is just one more reason to protect it. our chief foreign environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson has our report from key west, florida.
The kaleidoscope of light in the coral reef under the turquoise water of the florida keys is a magnet for tourists. does all of this help you preserve the reef?
I think ultimately it does, people become advocates for the reef. the nature conservancy’s stephanie reed things this could help. it may help people, too.
what we’re doing is taking advantage of the chemistry and turning the chemicals into drugs to save lives. Scientists thing the reefs could yield new therapies for alzheimer’s disease, parkinson’s and lupus. all because of the success they’ll had for drugs to beat cancer. this woman had help from a chemotherapy drug originally derived from a sea sponge. without it, she said she could have died at age 26. did you ever mage what could make you better would come from the sea?
Watch the video and if you are dealing with Breast Cancer, then contact your doctor and ask them for the newest therapy called Halloran:
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