The cancer victims new hope has emerged after the medication is from the category of muscle relaxants, synthesized 150 years ago, improved the effect of radiation. So, the treatment of tumors will improve.
Irradiation in the treatment of tumors can become much more efficient thanks to a drug called papaverine. Note that this drug was synthesized 150 years ago, it is widely used still as a muscle relaxant. Our grandparents didn’t know the other combinations of drugs against high blood pressure, in addition to “with Dibazol papaverine”. Now scientists believe that papaverine will make one of the most common methods of cancer treatment more effective by monitoring the number of used cells energy. Currently, the radiation ceases to have effect when the tissues of the patient is hypoxia or deficiency of oxygen. And this is a fairly common phenomenon in malignant neoplasms.
Aggressive nature of the tumor requires more oxygen than you can get from the blood. As a result, the tissues are starving, and radiation can influence them fully. However, experts have found that this process can be controlled by controlling the appetite of tumors and oxygenation, keeping them at a healthy level so that they can absorb ionizing radiation. This can be achieved with papaverine, which is used to treat spasms, including intestinal, heart, or brain. The drug inhibits a key element in the DNA of cells inside cancerous tumors.
It inhibits the respiration of mitochondria that create energy in cells, allowing cancer to spread. As a result, due to the regulation of oxygen supply and demand, papaverine reduces hypoxia and allows the radiation to reach the most remote parts of a tumor, which makes cancer treatment more effective. (READ MORE)