Victims of breast cancer may obtain a significant effect in the treatment of one of the most affordable antibiotics. He kills the aggressive cells that cause tumor recurrence.
One of the cheapest antibiotics doxycycline aggressive kills cells that trigger the recurrence of breast cancer. The discovery could help hundreds of thousands of victims of this disease who are faced with the return of the cancer, sometimes appearing in this case, fatal. A clinical trial involving 9 patients showed that doxycycline securely destroying aggressive cells that trigger the recurrence of cancer. Patients have taken this antibiotic, which is commonly used in pneumonia, sinusitis and chlamydia every day for two weeks.
The study showed that it is an effective medicine that is widely available for the vast majority of people. The study authors emphasize that approximately two-thirds of all cancer deaths are caused by this disease to recur after initial treatment. The participants of the study used 200 mg tablets of doxycycline every day for two weeks before surgery to remove the tumor. All the women had taken tissue samples for measurements, as they climbed and 6 women from the control group who did not use antibiotics.
In these samples, researchers evaluated the ability of cancer cells to reproduce themselves, proliferate or self-destruct in a process called apoptosis. The results of the study showed that cancer cells under the influence of doxycycline lose the ability to survive and metastasize, and cause tumor recurrence after initial treatment. (READ MORE)