Wound Repair Compound Speeds Healing, May Fight Cancer

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Wound Repair Complex Doubles the Rate of Healing; May

Find Use in Cancer as Well

Australian investigators say that a combination of

proteins not only help double the rate of wound

healing, but may have some use in cancer therapies.

The proteins involved were well known, but the

creation of the combination draws on recent research

showing how the proteins act in concert.

The compound uses three naturally-produced proteins

that the body uses in repairing tissue damage.

Applied externally or injected into the wound site,

the compound speeds up the repair process for wounds,

burns, surgery, chronic ulcers in diabetics, and

bedsores in bedridden patients.

And because the wound repair process normally stops

once a wound is healed, the mixture may find a use in

proliferating cancerous tumors to slow or halt tumor

growth.

The research was presented at the Commercialising

Health Innovations Forum in Sydney on August 15, 2001.

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