2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A researcher from Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) claimed to have found a complete cure for human papilloma virus (HPV), which can help prevent the spread of cervical cancer among women. Eva Ramon Gallegos, a Mexican scientist, managed to completely eliminate the virus in 29 patients infected with HPV.
According to a report, the team of researchers led by Dr. Gallegos treated the women with non-invasive photodynamic therapy (PDT). According to the National Cancer Institute, photodynamic therapy is a treatment that involves the use of a medicine, called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, and a particular type of light to treat different areas of the body.
Gallegos has reportedly been studying the effects of photodynamic therapy for two decades to help tackle different types of tumors such as breast cancer and melanoma. Gallegos, who specializes in the study of photodynamic therapy, treated 420 patients in Oaxaca and Veracruz, as well as 29 women in Mexico, using the technique.
The results were promising, as the researchers found that photodynamic therapy was able to eradicate the virus in 100% of those who carried HPV without premalignant cervical cancer lesions, 64.3% in women with HPV and lesions, and 57.2% in Patients with lesions without HPV infection.
The surprising thing about this research is that this therapy does not have any collateral damage to the human body, which means that it has no side effects.
"Unlike other treatments, it only removes damaged cells and does not affect healthy structures. Therefore, it has great potential to decrease the death rate from cervical cancer."
The human papilloma virus is widespread throughout the world. There are more than 100 variants of HPV, of which at least 14 can cause cervical cancer, which is fast becoming a leading cause of death among cancer patients worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in women, with an estimated 570,000 new cases each year, representing 6.6% of all female cancers.
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