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... Botox could be used to help Shrink Cancer Tumors A {text-decoration: none;} Home Top Stories Sports Entertainment Health News Business Personal Finance Real Estate Business Finance Insurance Consulting Tax News Forum Writers Featured Articles Search: Botox could be used to help Shrink Cancer Tumors February 15th, 2006 Botox Botox may be used as part of the treatment of Cancer in the near future.

A research study from the Université de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, led by Bernard Gallez, Ph.D., have been one of the first to explore how Botox could be used to treat cancer patients.

First reported in the February 15th issue of Clinical Cancer Research, the results were hopeful.

When the Botox (Botulinum neurotoxin type A) was injected into two different kinds of tumors in mice, it caused the tumors’ cellular vasculature to open.

This improved circulation of the tumor made it more effective at killing off the cancer cells when using traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

These are preliminary studies in mice and more research will need to be conducted.

The researchers hope that it will be used together with chemotherapy to make the treatment more effective and killing of the cancer.

Having an opening in the blood vessels that feed the tumor is not the focus on most research.

This is a unique approach in better delivering the chemotherapy and radiation to a tumor.

A lot of research focus on exactl...

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