The Earth Chronicles of Life by space · September 2, 2020
For the first time, Australian scientists tested the already proven anti-cancer agent – honey bee venom – on triple-negative breast cancer. This disease is extremely difficult to defeat, so alternative treatments will give hope to hundreds of patients.
Triple negative breast cancer is so named because its cells do not contain the receptors for estrogen, progesterone, and the HER-2 protein. This means that hormone therapy is powerless against this type of tumor, which grows rapidly and can begin to metastasize already at the first stage. The likelihood of relapse after chemotherapy is high, while the survival rate after tumor removal, on the contrary, is extremely low.
Dr. Ciara Duffy of the Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research and the University of Western Australia and her team have shown that triple negative breast cancer is easily dealt with by melittin, a component of honey bee venom. In a paper published in the journal Nature, it is shown that a certain concentration of melittin can cause the death of 100% of cancer cells with minimal impact on normal cells in the body. Complete destruction of cancer cell membranes can occur in as little as 60 minutes. Bumblebee venom showed no similar effects.
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