The cure for alcoholism cure brain cancer

Is used to treat alcohol addiction medicine as the researchers found, is able to effectively destroy deadly brain tumors. Lab tests showed that the drug passes through the brain barrier and copper fills the malignant cells, leading to their death.

It is about a drug called disulfiram Which has long been treated for alcoholism. Over 60 years, this medicine is used as a means of constituting the treatment of alcohol dependence, as it is a very unpleasant reaction in humans that has reached an acute sensitivity to alcohol, ie alcoholics.

Now, scientists from the University of Wolverhampton UK found that disulfiram   copes with glioblastoma   - The most common and most lethal form of brain cancer. Unlike most drugs, disulfiram   It passes through a protective barrier from the blood and brain, a kind of physical and molecular wall that does not release toxic substances out of the brain.

During tests in the laboratory preparation killed cell culture Glioblastoma . Proved particularly effective medication in combination with gemcitabine - one of the few chemotherapy drugs are also able to overcome the above-mentioned barrier. Around 8,000 Russians every year are victims of glioblastoma. At the end of the best chances to stay alive a year after the diagnosis was 27%.

News from the UK It is gratifying to the fact that long ago registered disulfiram and its effects on the human body and all sorts of side effects are well known. Therefore, the transition to clinical trials in humans, suffering from cancer of the brain, can be implemented very quickly.

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