Iodine and cancer

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Today, I have been adding links to the cancer section:

Links > 21 How Iodine Affects the Body > Diseases > Cancer

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I am discovering how many ways iodine can be used in cancer treatment. There are some very exciting developments still in the early research stage.

The forms of cancer for which I have found research thus far include breast, colon, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, stomach, and thyroid.

If you have not yet read the Zhang article, I highly recommend it. They have used a new technique developed for use with radioactive iodine, but they used it with nonradioactive iodide instead. It was highly effective. It involved using the NIS (the sodium iodide symporter found in the thyroid that takes iodide into the thyroid) and TPO (thyroperoxidase, the enzyme that changes the iodide into an organic form and creates thyroid hormones) genes -- to encourage the iodine to enter the tumor and stay there.

This sounds like a technique that may be broadly effective against cancer. It sounds like it should be usable wherever they have thus far been using radioactive iodine for cancer treatment -- which is just about every kind of cancer.

Nonradioactive Iodide Effectively Induces Apoptosis in Genetically Modified Lung Cancer Cells Zhang L, Sharma S, Zhu LX, Kogai T, Hershman JM, Brent GA, Dubinett SM, Huang M., 2003. Article. "We assessed a nonradioactive approach to induce apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer by a novel iodide uptake and retention mechanism. To enhance tumor apoptosis, we transduced non-small cell lung cancer cells with retroviral vectors containing the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) and thyroperoxidase (TPO) genes. Expression of NIS and TPO facilitated concentration of iodide in tumors. As a consequence of the marked increase in intracellular levels of iodide, apoptosis was seen in >95% of NIS/TPO-modified lung cancer cells. Intraperitoneal injection of potassium iodide resulted in significant tumor volume reduction in NIS/TPO-modified tumor xenografts without apparent adverse effects in SCID mice. Iodide induced an increase in the level of reactive oxygen species. Iodide-induced apoptosis is sensitive to N-acetylcysteine inhibition, suggesting an important role by reactive oxygen species in this apoptotic process. In addition, iodide-induced apoptosis is associated with overexpression of CDKN1A (p21/Waf1)and down-regulation of survivin at both mRNA and protein levels. This is the first report demonstrating that a therapeutic dose of nonradioactive iodide has potent efficacy and high selectivity against lung cancer when used in combination with genetic modification of cancer cells to express the NIS/TPO genes." http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/63/16/5065

Zoe

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there are many cancer and iodine helps in skin cancer .other sort cancer can be helped by baking soda.

 

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/en/

 

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/protocol-skin-cancer.html

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13 AM, jacqui butterworth <jacquibutterworth@...> wrote:

 

Help! A friend of my daughter has been given 6mths to live cos of cancer and I have seen someone on thissite mention a cancer help site that recommends iodine, can anyone tell me the site?

 

Jacqui