In the latest study, scientists have discovered a ‘switch’ that can bring cancer-infected cells back to a healthy state.
In the study, South Korean researchers activated cells at the molecular level and returned cancerous cells to a healthy state.
Dr. Tiffany Trousseau-Sandoval, a retired oncologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (who was not involved in the study), said that the research results provide a new way to treat cancer by rewiring them instead of destroying them.
She said that to better understand this hybrid approach, you can think of boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius. That is, there is a very brief moment when the water is neither completely liquid nor solid. Similarly, when cancer is flourishing, there comes a time when the cells are both healthy and cancerous at the same time.
Traditional treatments focus on killing cancer cells through surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.
But new research suggests a third way cancer patients can regenerate healthy cells.
