Great news for cancer patients who need radiotherapy

Cancer can be successfully treated with a higher rate, even cured completely by applying hibernation.

Scientists have found evidence that allowing the body to fall asleep will help significantly protect the toxic effects of radiation therapy, while also limiting tumor growth.

The hibernation process, like bears, is opening a new path for cancer treatment studies.

Thus, this method will allow oncologists to use higher doses of radiation to kill cancer cells without worrying too much about damaging their health.

Italian scientists said the new method could be applied in a day not far away to help millions of people suffering from diseases that cannot be treated due to health concerns.

This process is very successful in mice and scientists are planning to test it in humans to include treatment in the next 10 years.

Professor Marco Durante, from the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, said: "About 50% of cancer patients have one more cancer, this is a fairly large number. You cannot treat them all. You cannot use surgery everywhere to remove cancers or radiate radiation in all parts of the body that are affected, or we will kill the patient during the incident. "If you can put the patient in a coma (like hibernation), you can prevent cancer from developing. It gives you more time."

Multi-metastatic cancer is the obsession of many people because of the degree of body damage it causes.

"When patients are awakened, they are completely cured. That's our ambition," said Professor Marco Durante.

The basic idea is taken into account after years of hibernating animal studies, and from reports of people who accidentally fell into deep freeze but still survived.

There are many cases where the victim survived after experiencing a temperature lower than the normal temperature for a considerable time but can still recover without any damage.

Anna Bagenholm, a Swedish radiation scientist who fell into an ice hole for over an hour, when her body temperature fell to 13.7 ^o C, the lowest level ever recorded for a survivors. Despite a small amount of nerve damage, she recovered completely and returned to work shortly afterwards.

Another case is Erika Nordby, a 13-month-old Canadian baby who was stuck outside when wearing diapers only under negative temperature conditions. When she was found, the outside temperature was - 24 ^o C and the doctor determined that she was clinically dead, completely without heart rate.

But miraculously, after being placed under a warm blanket, she returned to normal without any sign of serious injury. Her doctor said she might be in a state like a hibernation

People will be able to enter hibernation.

Scientists believe that in a restful state the body's ability to repair DNA damage will improve . The goal is to get cancer patients into deep sleep with cooling for about a week and this time will be long enough for doctors to kill their tumors with radiotherapy.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Professor Durante said: "I am very confident that this approach is possible for people. We can now cure it. The problem is 50% remaining If the method works, there will be a lot of patients with many cancer metastases that are hopelessly treated, it will be a real step. great in the future ahead ".

During hibernation, a form of deep sleep in cold temperatures, bodily functions such as heart rate, breathing, metabolism and absorption of oxygen occur slowly. At the molecular level, gene activity and protein synthesis are reduced to an extremely slow rate.

Professor Peter Johnson, Head of the British Cancer Research Program, said: "The effects of a hibernate-induced technique on cancer are difficult to predict, can help or hinder the We will need to make some more careful experiments in the lab models before concluding whether this method will be safe and effective for the majority of us. " .