discovered in rainforest successfully tested on humans
Submitted by IWB, on August 22nd, 2016
A POTENTIAL cancer cure discovered in Far North Queensland that has been successfully tested on human patients is hoped to become commercially available in four years.
Brisbane-based researchers QBiotics have released the results of their first clinical trials of the drug EBC-46.
The drug has been derived from the seeds of the rainforest blushwood tree, which grows on the Tablelands.
Eight cancer patients across Australia were tested with the drug, which successfully treated four different types of tumours that included melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and breast adenocarcinoma.
QBiotics CEO Dr Victoria Gordon said none of the patients, who were treated at hospitals in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, showed any negative side effects from the drug.
“Our last patient – which was our melanoma patient – we had total tumour destruction in both of the tumours that we treated,” she said.
“We’re very happy about that.
“Within seven days, the tumours were gone.
“The exciting thing is the drugs are responding in exactly the same way in tumours in cats and dogs and horses.
“It’s proving our theory that it’s not species-specific, and it’s not tumour-specific either, because it’s actually working in a range of tumours.”