Blushwood shrub provides possible cancer cure

[Auzgurl]

Article from: The Courier-Mail

Peter Michael

February 04, 2010 11:00pm

CANCER patients are offering themselves as human guinea pigs as researchers investigate a possible cure for cancer found in north Queensland rainforests.

Scientists have identified a compound in the fruit of the native blushwood shrub that appears to "liquefy and destroy cancer with no side-effects", according to latest research.

Found deep in the remnants of a 130 million-year-old rainforest, the fruit extract may yet hold the secret antidote to Australia's No.1 killer disease.

Victoria Gordon, of EcoBiotics, an Atherton Tableland-based company, said they hoped to go to human clinical trials later this year.

Dr Gordon said a single dose injection of the extract, known as EBC-46, had been effective in 50 critically ill dogs and about a dozen cats and horses.

"This is proving to be something exceptional," she said.

"The tumour literally liquefies.

"There is a rapid knock-down of the tumour, it disintegrates within 24 hours and we have a rapid healing response.

"The biggest tumour we treated was the size of a Coke can in a dog, and that animal is fully healed and healthy."

Dr Gordon said it had worked on skin cancers, such as carcinomas and melanomas, and bone cancer, and was a possible treatment for breast, colon and prostate cancer.

But she warned wannabe human guinea pigs against seeking under-the-table treatment.

She said it was "immoral, illegal, and unscientific" to seek to be administered the drug before approval, likely to take up to seven years, by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

"We have been inundated with calls – it shows there is such a need for a breakthrough in anti-cancer treatment," she said. "Most people understand when we explain the situation."

Former breast cancer sufferer Mena Crew, 65, said many dying of cancer would "do anything for a miracle cure".

"We would all like a magic cure, that would be wonderful, and I hope in my lifetime we find it," the breast cancer support volunteer said.

She has worked with more than 200 sufferers and some victims in her role with the Cancer Council Queensland.

"I don't want to kill the enthusiasm of all the wonderful research, but until it is proven it will do the job, we recommend they go with proven and conventional treatments," she said.

"It is good, however, to think the secret antidote may be growing in the jungle above Cairns."

This is very exciting...

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Brtilliant stuff auzgirl. Great news if it proves good for use in humans.

[Auzgurl]

Rainbow..human trials are going to start soonish using this plant..

Human trials planned for new cancer treatment
By Andree Withey

Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 11:04am AEDT

Map: Atherton 4883
Human trials are planned for a new cancer treatment developed in far north Queensland.

An Australian company has developed a drug from the blushwood shrub found on the Atherton Tablelands.

Researchers say they are pleased with the results of animal trials involving the new treatment.

Chief executive Professor Victoria Gordon, from Australian company, Eco Biotics, says a single dose injection has been effective in 50 critically ill dogs and about a dozen cats and horses since December.

She says human trials are planned for later this year.

"The drug is directly applicable to all of the skin cancers- melanomas, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma," she said.

"It looks like any solid tumour that we can actually get the drug to can be treated so that opens up the treatment for the other solid tumours including breast, prostate, colon."

Professor Gordon says research over the past five years has been encouraging.

"Unlike all other anti-cancer treatments, this drug has no known negative side effects," she said.

"It has a very rapid knock-down of tumours - the drug is only appropriate for solid tumours things like carcinomas melanomas, marcel tumours even osteosarcoma or a type of bone cancer."

[AiA in Atlanta]

The world economy would take a huge hit if a cure for cancer were discovered. Cancer is a growth-industry that won't slip away without a fight.

[Rainbow Moonlight]

While i recognise a certain amount of cynicism has its place surely someone wouldn't buy up and supress a cancer cure?

[AiA in Atlanta]

If you haven't seen the film "Who Killed The Electric Car," I recommend you do. It is a documentary on what happens to technology that threatens profits. The cancer industry is no different from any other industry - it will do what it has to to protect its profits.

[Aussie]

As does the oil industry.

[AiA in Atlanta]

If a profit can't be made by solving a problem the problem won't be solved. THAT is the problem of a civilisation based on money.