Cancer heretic vindicated

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Cancer heretic vindicated

Postby Teleny » Mon Mar 31, 2014 12:13 pm

‘Tis pity, ‘tis true. Cancer treatment pioneers who challenge the drug/radiation medical monopoly are often sidelined, and can sometimes be so vilified by the medical establishment that politicians are forced to outlaw their treatments.

Such was the fate of William Coley, a brilliant 19th c. medical graduate of both Harvard and Yale, who, using his medical detective ‘nous’, observed that cancer patients often did better if they had a concurrent infection, i.e. had a raised temperature. By the 1930’s Coley had developed a treatment which involved injecting cancer patients with bacteria in order to precipitate a fever. These co-called Coley’s Toxins began to be widely used, with even the ultra-conservative American Medical Association reversing its original scepticism and acknowledging that “the toxins may sometimes play a significant role in preventing or retarding malignant recurrence or metastases; occasionally they may be curative in hopelessly inoperable neoplasms [cancers].”

Coleys Toxins continued to be used sporadically until the 1960’s. However, the treatment scored an ironic own goal in August 1962 when the journal Cancer Chemotherapy Report announced the findings of a 7 year-long “controlled study” of the therapy and reported “a dramatic response” in a sizeable minority of cancer patients.
This was a naked challenge to the now burgeoning chemotherapy/ radiation industry. That very same year the US Food & Drug Administration (widely acknowledged to have had corrupt links to Big Pharma) announced that Coleys Toxins were an “unapproved” treatment – and therefore de facto illegal.

Fast forward to February 2014, and a study in the journal Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine by researchers in the Norrris Cotton Cancer Center group on the US East Coast.
They’ve been injecting cancer tumours with “iron-oxide nanoparticles” (in effect a solution of very fine rust dust), and then surrounding them with a magnetic field…which raises the rust dust temperature. The researchers were astonished to see that the treatment stimulated the body’s entire immune system, substantially raising the levels of natural “killer” T-cells, the body’s natural defences against cancer.

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“The study demonstrates that controlled heating of one tumour can stimulate an immune response that attacks another tumour that has not had the heat treatment,” says Professor Steve Fiering “It’s a way to train the immune system to attack metastatic tumors that may not have been recognized yet.”

They found that that the treatment activated so-called “antigen-presenting dendritic cells”. These are the body’s own first line of defence against cancer, whose job is to send out alert signals to bring the cancer-fighting T-cells into play. One specific temperature has been found to work best – only a few degrees above the body’s normal temperature of 36 degrees C.
“Magnetic hyperthermia enables very precise control of the heating to keep the temperature at a uniform 43 degrees C for as long as desired,” says Fiering. “This precise control was the key to optimal immune stimulation.”

So far the tests have been done only on mice, but the results are so dramatic that there is little doubt they'll soon be available for humans. “The use of the immune system through cancer immunotherapy is a very exciting field which promises to contribute significantly to elimination of metastatic tumors,” says Fiering. “The approach demonstrated is a good new option to be combined with other immunotherapy strategies for cancer therapy.”

A posthumous Nobel prize for Coley, then ? [Actually such awards don’t exist, but they ought to, because medical heretics are so often proved right years after their death]
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