{"id":11440,"date":"2022-10-25T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/this-could-change-the-way-cancer-is-treated\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:57:47","slug":"this-could-change-the-way-cancer-is-treated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/this-could-change-the-way-cancer-is-treated\/","title":{"rendered":"This could change the way cancer is treated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div
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loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This could change the way cancer is treated\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-YrZMIK37U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A mix of drugs, including pain killers and statins, are being examined to treat cancer cells as well as other illnesses. There is installing scientific proof that the &#8220;repurposing&#8221; of existing medications might supply effective brand-new therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more below: https:\/\/econ.st\/2WgHlpz<br
\/>\nClick here to sign up for The Economist on YouTube: https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy<\/p>\n<p>Now we &#8216;d like to take a few minutes to inform you everything about pain killers. Did you know that aspirin might help deal with cancer in addition to migraines. The discomfort&#8217;s gone, so tension&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s not the only medication being used to deal with an ailment that it wasn&#8217;t originally intended for.<br
\/>\nYet for some people, using old medicines for new treatments or &#8220;repurposing&#8221; can be the distinction between life as well as fatality. I still can&#8217;t locate the proper words to describe exactly how terrible it is to have to inform your own parents that you&#8217;ll be dead before them.<br
\/>\nMelanie Kennedy, mommy of 2 young boys was identified with bust cancer cells in 2013. It soon spread to her liver. She was provided 5 years to live. If you have an incurable cancer cells you intend to explore every option.<br
\/>\nNobody wants to leave their youngsters early as well as nobody desires to die young. I looked right into quite a couple of different alternatives which is how I found out concerning repurposed medicines<br
\/>\nVia a private-health facility Melanie began a program of treatment utilizing repurposed drugs.<br
\/>\nwhile continuing standard chemotherapy with the NHS. The center recommended she take an antibiotic called doxycycline, metformin, normally used to deal with type-2 diabetic issues, a statin, or cholesterol-lowering drug, and also mebendazole, a worming representative.<br
\/>\nAll these drugs were created for various other objectives but may have anti-cancer residential or commercial properties. In basic terms repurposing medications is taking an existing medicine that has been accredited for a specific therapeutic indication or a clinical condition and seeking to use it in a different scientific setting.<br
\/>\nAn excellent example is that of aspirin which really was initially made use of as a painkiller when it was initial certified. Nowadays we predominantly utilize it as a blood thinner yet in fact there are scientific trials underway checking out its role in an anti-cancer setup.<br
\/>\nSo why aren&#8217;t extra medications repurposed?<br
\/>\nWhen a new medication is given market it is shielded by a patent giving the firm that developed it special rights to sell it. This quits copycat medicines being marketed by competitors permitting the designer to earn a profit. Yet many existing medicines that might be repurposed are no more covered by licenses so business have less incentive to pay the expense of testing them for new conditions.<br
\/>\nPhysicians are hesitant to prescribe a medication to deal with a disease that it had not been developed for. And also that&#8217;s due to the fact that if there are any kind of concerns when people after that take those medicines the physician is eventually liable.<br
\/>\nDo you want to provide me a little bit of a summary? After a two-year program of radiation treatment along with repurposed medications her scans are showing no brand-new evidence of illness. Medical professionals can&#8217;t say with certainty that her remarkable enhancement was triggered by the repurposed medications.<br
\/>\nFor that the trial she&#8217;s part of has to be finished. There&#8217;s a whole lot of professional proof to suggest that there&#8217;s a substantial untapped medicine cabinet of common medications that might assist deal with cancer.<br
\/>\nAnd also several other problems consisting of electric motor neurone illness and schizophrenia. There are lots of advantages of repurposing medicines. I mean the major one remains in regards to both money and time.<br
\/>\nMany brand-new medications cost over $2bn to bring with the entire clinical-trial procedure and also in fact certify them for usage in medical technique. That takes a long period of time and is pricey for medication firms as well as for the NHS.<br
\/>\nDrug repurposing is less expensive than creating brand-new medications because the medication has actually already been checked for safety which itself is extremely pricey. Melanie believes this test has conserved her life.<br
\/>\nFor more tests like this to take place governments will require to alter the incentives for pharmaceutical companies and also resolve the patent trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of drugs, including pain killers and statins, are being examined to treat cancer cells as well as other illnesses. There is installing scientific proof that the &#8220;repurposing&#8221; of existing medications might supply effective brand-new therapies. Learn more below: https:\/\/econ.st\/2WgHlpz Click here to sign up for The Economist on YouTube: https:\/\/econ.st\/2xvTKdy Now we &#8216;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[1660,2911,2910,2922,21,2916,2919,2915,2918,257,2917,2921,22,1372,913,59,2908,2923,2399,1862,85,11073,14355,8510,14352,14353,2907,2963,2906,33,88,2924,2914,2925,3011,190,2913,303,2926,2927,296,2785,14356,8199,3622,14354,2912,14351,2909,1277,2920],"class_list":["post-11440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breast-cancer","tag-alzheimers","tag-anti-bacteria","tag-anti-viral","tag-bladder-cancer","tag-breast-cancer","tag-breast-cancer-causes","tag-breast-cancer-causes-and-symptoms","tag-breast-cancer-definition","tag-breast-cancer-pictures","tag-breast-cancer-treatment","tag-breast-cancer-types","tag-breast-cancer-wiki","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-cure","tag-cancer-research","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-cholesterol","tag-colorectal-cancer","tag-cure-for-cancer","tag-depression","tag-diabetes","tag-drug","tag-drug-repurposing","tag-economist","tag-economist-films","tag-economist-videos","tag-esophageal-cancer","tag-health","tag-healthy-cures","tag-heart-disease","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-kidney-cancer","tag-lung-cancer-treatment","tag-lymphoma","tag-medicine","tag-melanoma","tag-naturopathic-cures","tag-news","tag-non-hodgkin","tag-oropharyngeal-cancer","tag-parkinsons","tag-politics","tag-repurposing-drugs","tag-research","tag-science","tag-short-documentary","tag-skincare","tag-the-economist","tag-tooth-decay","tag-treatment","tag-what-is-breast-cancer-symptoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cancerawareness.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/25225753\/maxresdefault-15.jpg?fit=1280%2C720","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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