Cancer Patients, Good News! Hibernation Could Help Alleviate Radiotherapy's Effect And Even Cure The Condition

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Cancer, one of the world's deadliest diseases, has always been difficult to cure. However, a recent study suggests that putting terminal cancer patients to hibernation, just like of a bear, can treat their condition more effectively.

One leading expert named Marco Durante claimed that placing a cancer patient into a torpor state can be treated more successfully. They can even be cured by just being placed into this state, as reported by Telegraph. This is because experts found out that letting the body enter a state of torpor notably protects it from the radiotherapy's toxic effects. Apart from that, it also stops the growth of the tumor.

Hibernation also allows oncologists, a medical professional who diagnoses and treats a tumor, to make use of higher doses of radiation to cease cancer cells without risking the patient's health. Italian health experts said that the new, significant approach could help thousands of British citizens one day, especially those whose disease are diagnosed as untreatable.

The process of hibernation has become very successful with rats, therefore, they are planning to test it in humans. Medical professionals are hoping for it to be available within 10 years. "Around 50 percent of cancer patients have advanced cancer, so it is a large number," Professor Durante said. "We all have known someone affected this way. And there is nothing that we can do with them. They have multiple metastasis in the body."

He also said that it is impossible to kill all the mestasis, use surgery everywhere, or do radiation in all the affected body parts as this will potentiall kill the patient despite just trying to get rid of the cancer. However, putting the patient into "synthetic torpor can stop the growth of cancer as it gives both the patient and doctor more time.

Furthermore, it also increases radio resistance, letting doctors to treat all the various mestases without the risk of killing the patient. As New Scientist reported, it is Durante and his team's ambition to wake them up only to find out that they are cured.