Colloidal Silver might be effective against breat cancer

[Guest guest]

I make and use colloidal silver and believe it is very good as a disinfectant

and natural antibiotic but had no idea it might be effective against cancer.

A person posted this article on the colloidal silver forum which you might find

informative and interesting.

Sandy

2010 study on CS effectiveness for treating human breast cancer

While looking for old copies of Science Digest, I found the following at PubMed

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21080962):

J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Nov 16;29:148.

Antitumor activity of colloidal silver on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells.

Franco-Molina MA, Mendoza-Gamboa E, Sierra- CA, Gómez- RA,

Zapata-Benavides P, Castillo-Tello P, Alcocer-González JM, Miranda-Hernández DF,

Tamez-Guerra RS, Rodríguez-Padilla C.

Laboratorio de Inmunología y Virología, Departamento de Microbiología e

Inmunología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo

León, San Nicolás de los Garza, N, L, México. moyfranco@....

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND: Colloidal silver has been used as an antimicrobial and disinfectant

agent. However, there is scarce information on its antitumor potential. The aim

of this study was to determine if colloidal silver had cytotoxic effects on

MCF-7 breast cancer cells and its mechanism of cell death.

METHODS: MCF-7 breast cancer cells were treated with colloidal silver (ranged

from 1.75 to 17.5 ng/mL) for 5 h at 37°C and 5% CO2 atmosphere. Cell Viability

was evaluated by trypan blue exclusion method and the mechanism of cell death

through detection of mono-oligonucleosomes using an ELISA kit and TUNEL assay.

The production of NO, LDH, and Gpx, SOD, CAT, and Total antioxidant activities

were evaluated by colorimetric assays.

RESULTS: Colloidal silver had dose-dependent cytotoxic effect in MCF-7 breast

cancer cells through induction of apoptosis, shown an LD50 (3.5 ng/mL) and LD100

(14 ng/mL) (*P < 0.05), significantly decreased LDH (*P < 0.05) and

significantly increased SOD (*P < 0.05) activities. However, the NO production,

and Gpx, CAT, and Total antioxidant activities were not affected in MCF-7 breast

cancer cells. PBMC were not altered by colloidal silver.

CONCLUSIONS: The present results showed that colloidal silver might be a

potential alternative agent for human breast cancer therapy.

[Guest guest]

It is important to know and use a low voltage CS generator when making CS. Use

only steam distilled water.  

 

CANCER AND SILVER IONS.

The information on this page should be read in its entirety.  We don't think

you'll see any information anywhere else as important as this regarding cancer

and silver ions.

The following excerpts are from Dr. O. Becker's books " The Body Electric "

and " Cross Currents " .  Dr. Becker's work with silver was mainly to determine

how

cell regeneration occurred.  He discovered that silver ions caused cancer cells

to dedifferentiate and revert back to normal cells.  When he discussed

publishing his findings he was told to not publish or he would receive the wrath

of those that didn't want this type of information to be known.  He did publish

and as a consequence lost all funding and subsequently went into retirement. 

Nevertheless, this information is priceless. 

We have had several instances where people and animals with cancer had the

cancers disappear in a short period of time and in all those cases no chemo or

radiation was used.  The only thing used was fairly large amounts of

ionic/colloidal silver taken daily.  We also have an instance of a 13 year old

dog that was opened by a veterinarian and immediately sewn up with the comment

" this dog will be gone in a few weeks " .  The dog had lumps all over its body

and

the vet stated the dog had hemangioma sarcoma.  The dog was given CS as

drinking

water only and within a few days the cancers disappeared.  The dog resumed its

normal life and the last we heard it was still going strong at age 15.  We

subsequently lost contact but this shows that the placebo effect was not part of

the response in this animal.

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The Body Electric Chapter 8 Page 178

At this time, therefore, I must conclude that high-current electrodes (silver) 

might enhance the growth of any preexisting tumor cells in the electrical

pathunlike low-current silver, which when negative had no effect on, and when

positive suspended mitosis of cancer cells in our lab.

Page 224 The Body Electric

In my group's experiments with human fibrosarcoma cells in vitro, negative and

positive currents both speeded up growth by over 300 percent. On the other hand,

as mentioned in Chapter 8, we found that we could suspend mitosis in the

fibrosarcoma cells with silver ions injected by minute levels of positive

current. During one day of exposure, the cells appeared to dedifferentiate

completely, and they stopped dividing for a month without additional treatment,

even though we changed the nutrient medium regularly. Obviously, this entire

subject needs to be investigated more thoroughly.

O. Becker M.D.

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Pages 164-166 cross currents

By Dr. O. Becker

" In each case, the nonunions healed even faster than they would have if negative

electrical currents had been used. In addition, the soft tissues and skin healed

at the same extraordinary rate. The electrically generated silver ion was doing

something more than killing bacteria it was also causing major growth

stimulation of tissues in the wound.

When we finally tracked down exactly what was happening, we found that as human

fibroblast cells (which are common throughout the body) were exposed to the

electrically generated silver ions, they dedifferentiated. They were then able

to multiply at a great rate, producing large numbers of primitive, embryonic

cells in the wound even in patients over fifty years of age. These " uncommitted "

cells were then able to differentiate into whatever cell types were needed to

heal the wound. So what we were in fact doing was turning on regeneration in

human tissues, which I had thought we would never be able to do.

In our previous studies of regeneration, we had found that in human beings, only

bone-marrow cells could dedifferentiate. Because there were so few such cells,

we thought that any regeneration in human beings (other than fracture healing)

was impossible. The dedifferentiation of the abundant fibroblast cells by

electrically generated silver ions may provide us with the means to restore

regeneration to human patients.

While I was excited at this serendipitous discovery, my patients could have

cared less how the wounds were healed. They were simply delighted at the fact

that, at long last, a treatment had worked. Perhaps the most important moral in

this story is that it demonstrates that no one can tell in advance what will

happen in a scientific experiment.

Electrochemical therapy for cancer

Actually, this circuitous pathway led us back to one of our original aims, the

control of cancer growth. If the electrically generated silver ion

dedifferentiated normal human fibroblast cells, would it also dedifferentiate

human cancer cells? If so, we would have a way to duplicate in human beings.  

Dr. S. Meryl Rose's experiments with salamander cancers, in which

dedifferentiated cancer cells dedifferentiated as normal cells. A lack of funds,

unfortunately, prevented us from completing this work. However, we did find that

some human cancer cells in culture appeared to dedifferentiate when exposed to

these silver ions.

I also had a patient with a severe, chronic bone infection who had an associated

cancer in the wound. He refused amputation, which would have been the treatment

of choice, and insisted that I treat his infection with the silver technique.

After three months, the infection was under control, and the cancer cells in the

wound appeared to have changed back to normal. When I last heard from him, eight

years after the treatment, he was still fine.

It is important to realize that this is not simply an electrical effect, but the

result of the combined action of the electrical voltage and the electrically

generated silver ions. It is an electrochemical treatment. While we do not have

firm evidence at this time, what probably happens is that the silver ion is

shaped so as to connect with some receptor group on the surface of the

cancer-cell membrane. After that connection is made, an electrical-charge

transfer sends a signal to the nucleus of the cancer cell that activates the

primitive-type genes, and the cell dedifferentiates. In that state it awaits

instructions as to what it is to become. The process is exactly the same as that

in Rose's experiments, except that in this case the dedifferentiation is caused

by the unexpected action of the positive silver ions.

This technique obviously requires more study before any clinical use can be made

of its antitumor effect. However, it does appear to be a promising lead in an

otherwise rather grim picture. "

 

Some people have made statements that silver is a heavy metal and can induce

cancer.  Nothing is further from the truth.  Here is an excellent rebuttal to

one detractor of silver named .   Marshal Dudley researched

the silver/cancer claims and here is his information.  

http://www.silver-colloids.com/Pubs/dark-side-rebutal.htm

 

http://www.silvergen.com/cancer_and_silver.htm

 

Vic