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Chemotherapy Feeds Cancer, sounds strange, now learn the truth.

Have you ever wondered why advance cancer treatment fails to halt the spread of a tumor?

Cancer Feeds on

The reasons why mainstream cancer treatments so often fail, is that chemotherapy may be a cancer’s friend. Chemotherapy is a doubled edge sword. The effects of the treatment are deadly for many reasons.

The treatment alone can kill you and many times does. But, the deadly effects don’t stop there. Halting the spread of these cells has always been the Achilles’ heal of the cancer industry.

The public has a healthy fear of chemo and radiation treatment. Why people deteriorate on those protocols are three fold. One, the treatment many times doesn’t slow the spread, two it breaks down the immune system, and three it feeds the cancer cells.

Cancer can become immune to chemotherapy and use the drugs for a food supply. This next reason is the icing on the cake.

Researchers with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Department of Chemistry have won an $805,000 grant from the U.S, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program to study whether dead cancer cells left over after treatment encourage Cancer’s spread to other parts of the body.

The research centers on examining inactivated or altered genetic material (DNA) left in the body after breast-cancer cells are exposed to chemotherapy. UAB researches say the resulting altered DNA may be the factor that activates the spread of living cancer cells to distant locations in the body- a process called metastasis-through a specific molecular pathway.

“What if by killing cancer cells with chemotherapy we inadvertently induce DNA structures that make surviving cancers cells more invasive? The idea is tough to stomach,” said Katri Selender, M.D, PhD, and assistant professor of the UBA Division of Hematology and oncology and co-principal researcher on the grant.

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