How about how expensive they expect this treatment to be. My milk flows free of charge. Megan > > From: "Dean & Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 26/06/2004 19:05:20 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] who would have guessed? Breast Milk Kills Skin Warts > > Svanborg said if HAMLET proves useful against serious diseases, the compound would > probably be synthesized in the lab instead of being extracted from breast milk > > The article was really interesting but the thing that got me was the above > sentence.... > isn't it amazing how females can naturally produce something that is hugely > beneficial to the health of others and yet they automatically say they will > artificially produce the compound rather than extract it from the natural > source....! What is it about not wanting to actually use what is natural?? > anyway... > Jo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jen Semple > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:26 PM > Subject: [ozmidwifery] who would have guessed? Breast Milk Kills Skin Warts > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/23/health/printable625825.shtml > > Breast Milk Kills Skin Warts > TRENTON, New Jersey June 23, 2004 > > > A compound in breast milk has been found to destroy many skin warts, raising hopes > it might also prove effective against cervical cancer and other lethal diseases > caused by the same virus. > > The human papilloma virus causes skin warts, which is extremely widespread. > Swedish researchers found that when the breast-milk compound - since named HAMLET - > is applied to the skin, it kills virally infected cells in warts resistant to > conventional treatments. > > "This may have relevance for the treatment of cervical cancer," because virally > infected and cancer cells are similar, said lead researcher Dr. Catharina Svanborg, > professor of clinical immunology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. > > The researchers hope to start small-scale testing of the compound so! on on women > with cervical cancer. > > "Any long-term potential for any devastating diseases is very speculative at this > stage" but should be followed up, said Catherine Laughlin, chief of the virology > branch in the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National > Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. > > There are 130 known types of the human papilloma virus. Two sexually transmitted > types cause nearly all cases of cervical cancer. Other types cause skin and genital > warts, squamous cell skin cancer and lesions in the throat that are deadly in rare > cases. > > Many people carry the virus in skin cells, but it does not always cause disease. > > Doctors knew breast milk contained a natural antibiotic. But its potential against > viruses and tumors was discovered by accident. > > Svanborg's team was testing ways to fight what is called bacterial superinfection > - bacteria infecting cells already infected by a virus. They applied a protein in > mo! ther's milk called alpha-lactalbumin to double-infected lung cancer cells. > > To the researchers' surprise, the cancer cells as well as the bacteria inside them > were killed. That was because the milk protein had changed its configuration, bound > to another milk component called oleic acid, and created the more powerful HAMLET > compound. > > The research team then tested the compound against warts on patients' hands and > painful ones on their feet, called plantar warts. The warts shrank by at least 75 > percent over the first three weeks the compound was applied to the skin. And at > least three-quarters of the warts disappeared after a second treatment. > > The researchers dubbed the compound HAMLET, an acronym for human alpha-lactalbumin > made lethal to tumor cells, partly because of their proximity to the scene of the > Shakespeare play, which took place in Denmark. > > The research was reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. > > "Any agent that can be topically applied and absorbs well into cancerous or > precancerous cells has great potential," said Dr. Frank Murphy, chief of dermatology > at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. > > Murphy noted that the compound probably would be much more expensive than standard > treatments for warts, about half of which go away on their own within two years. The > standard treatments for getting rid of warts include burning, freezing, laser > removal and various topical solutions. > > Dr. Karl Beutner, associate clinical professor of dermatology at University of > California-San Francisco, said a drug that destroys skin warts also should work > against papilloma lesions in the throat, but not necessarily against cervical > cancer. > > Svanborg said if HAMLET proves useful against serious diseases, the compound would > probably be synthesized in the lab instead of being extracted from breast milk. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > >
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