Post by bluepride on Feb 7, 2010 15:04:42 GMT -5
Possible Cancer Cure Found in Blushwood Shrub
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 EBO-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 liquifies."
"There as a rapid knock-down of the tumour, it disintegrates within 24 hours and we have a rapid healing response.
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