Arsenic, the poison favorite since Roman times, it can work destroy specific proteins in blood or leukemia cancer cells. Scientists from the Chinese feel confident, arsenic possess great potential to be a cure for cancer in the future.
“Our results show how the arsenic directly to the protein target and kill him,” said lead researcher Zhang Xiaowei from State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai, China.
Another advantage of the arsenic, Zhang added, is not causing side effects like chemotherapy. “No effect hair loss or bone dysfunction. Therefore we are interested to explore whether arsenic can also be used in other cancer types,” he said.
Arsenic compounds are deadly poison because it has no smell, no taste and soluble in water so it is difficult to detect. Moreover, the symptoms resemble those poisoned who experience common digestive disorder, ie vomiting, diarrhea and excessive perspiration.
In China, arsenic has two functions, as well as toxic substances, since thousands of years ago arsenic was also used as part of traditional Chinese medicine.
In 1992, the number of doctors in China reported 90 percent of arsenic can cure acute leukemia. But there was as yet be explained how the workings of arsenic until later Zhang and his colleagues used modern technology to find out.
In a report published in the journal Science, Dr. Zhang and his team, including the Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, explaining how sophisticated modern equipment capable of seeing the workings of arsenic in the search for cancer cells.
“This shows how Western technology can be used to open the mysteries of traditional Chinese medicine,” said Zhang.
Although not all doctors in the world recommend the use of arsenic to treat acute leukemia, but, according to Zhang in Chinese leukemia patient’s life expectancy rate is very high, this reaches five years.


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