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WOW: Israeli Company Reports New Method Destroys Cancerous Tumors

An Israeli company has announced that it has created a technology that will destroy cancerous tumors.

As The Times Of Israel reports, Alpha Tau Medical has a new treatment called Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DaRT). To circumvent the problem of how to prevent alpha particles that kill cancer cells from decaying rapidly, Alpha Tau initiated a method of placing the alpha particles inside a needle containing radium-224, a radioactive isotope. Once the needle is inserted into the tumor, it takes the radium four days to vanish, but during that period the radium transmits “daughter atoms” that spit out alpha particles that rupture the DNA of the cancer cells.

CEO Uzi Sofer told The Times of Israel, “This is the first time in the world that you can treat solid tumors,” with alpha radiation. He asserted that the treatment can be given anywhere; there is no need for a hospital setting, concluding, “It is like going to the dentist.” The whole procedure can take between 30 minutes and two hours.

Sofer explained that specific applicators created by his company permit six needles or “darts” to be injected simultaneously. Once inserted, the darts remain in the patient’s skin for at least two weeks; Sofer added that if the cancer is found in an internal organ, the darts can remain permanently as they are biocompatible. Sara Jaehnert, marketing and communication manager, added that during clinical trials, no side effects were observed. She said, “Cancer cells know how to ‘hide’ from the immune system,” but “tumor ablation can cause the formation of tumor-specific antigens that can then be recognized by the immune system.”

Sofer cited a woman who had undergone the treatment at Romagna’s Scientific Institute for the Study and Cure of Cancers (IRST) in Italy. Sofer reported that the woman had a recurrent tumor in her right leg but it vanished after she was treated for a month. The Times of Israel writes, “The best news, however, was that the two lesions of the left leg that the doctors planned to treat 30 days later disappeared because of an abscopal effect – a rare phenomenon that occurs when treating a tumor leads to the withdrawal or disappearance of other metastases present in the body.”

Alpha Tau Medical started clinical trials on humans in February-March 2017.

Of 27 patients treated for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head, neck, and skin, 73% had their tumors disappear, according to Sofer.

Sofer concluded, “We pray and believe that by next year we will have the first approval in Europe and then we’ll have approval in the U.S. and Japan, with a very clear roadmap for each country … We feel that it is really breakthrough and game-changing in the field of oncology. We are really seeing a miracle.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39401/wow-israeli-company-reports-new-method-destroys-hank-berrien