Potential Cure For Cancer?

Malaria vaccine could cure cancer, researchers have claimed.

17:29 20 October 2015

Researchers and scientists from the University of Copenhagen are working together with University of British Columbia to confirm if malaria vaccine for pregnant women could really be used to cure cancer. A malaria researcher, Ali Salanti and cancer researcher, Mads Daugaard, have found this breakthrough.  

 

In a journal they published in Cance Cell, Salanti and Dauugard say they are planning on conducting human trials in the next four years. Their research suggests that the carbohydrate that the malaria parasite attaches itself to in the placenta of pregnant women is the same with that of the cancer cells. When they combined the malaria parasite and cancer cells, the parasite reacted to the cancer cells as if it attaches to a placenta.

 

The study also showed that carbohydrates contribute to the faster growth of the placenta and cancer cells. Thus, by using the vaccine, the virus is killed directly from the origin. The researchers said that this study could finally be the answer to cancer or at least, they can learn more about the disease.