Silver can kill some tumours better than chemotherapy with fewer side effects

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9:00 PM on 2nd February 2012 | By Anthony Bond

[DeaconBenjamin]

Silver can kill some cancers as effectively as chemotherapy with potentially fewer side effects, new research claims.

Scientists say that old wives tales about the precious metal being a ‘silver bullet’ to beat the Big C could be true.

The metal already has a wide range of medicinal uses and is a common antiseptic, antibiotic and means of purifying water in the third world.

And British researchers now say that silver compounds are as effective at killing certain cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug, but with potentially far fewer side-effects.

They compared it to Cisplatin, currently used to treat a wide variety of cancers, but known to have harsh side effects including nausea, vomiting and even kidney damage.

Silver is used already in everyday products such as deodorant with no known side-effects, and could make for a potentially cheaper alternative to platinum-based Cisplatin.

Researchers from the University of Leeds conducted lab tests which exposed breast and colon cancer cells to various silver-based chemicals over a six day period. These silver-compounds were ‘as effective as Cisplatin’ at killing cancer with potentially fewer side effects.

While the team are still unsure about how exactly silver battles cancer, they think its effectiveness may be caused by the structure surrounding silver atoms, known as its ligand.

They think this may help release the silver ion into cells when it enters the body, killing any cancer.

Study author Dr Charlotte Willans plans to spend the next year looking closely at what effect silver has on both cancerous and healthy cells, and whether it could be a safe and effective new anti-cancer drug.

'It’s certainly an exciting discovery, although I think we have a lot of work to do in the future. It opens the doors in terms of what we can do and investigate.

[Pontiac]

Thanks

First update I have seen on the gold nano-particle treatment.

[Errant]

You’re most welcome! I made a donation so now they send me occasional emails of their progress.

[TigersEye]

Thanks for the ping, metmom. Interesting subject.

[Taffini]

bump silver/cancer killer

[BobL]

“I saw the documentary on that guy. He was making his own colloidal silver. Obviously, he did it wrong. I’ve been using it for 5 years and haven’t turned blue yet.”

Sad for him, totally harmless but nothing he can do about it now - completely irreversible. I read where his method of making the colloidal silver resulted in its strength being something like 1,000 times what one would normally buy in a bottle, and he was taking a lifetime’s worth of the silver every week or so.

The bottom line, from what I read, is that while it’s easy to make your own, it’s also easy to make it way too strong - so be careful.

[Joya]

Interesting. Thanks.

[LibertyRocks]

Yes, but does he have cancer??? LOL

I guess cancer could be considered a tad bit worse than walking around looking like Papa Smurf for the rest of your life. He’d have an easy Halloween costume - that’s for sure. You could get a variety of jobs being blue - fill-in for the blue man group, dress-up as any smurf for kid’s parties, be a mascot at annual blueberry festivals... Yep, “I’d rather be blue” ;)

[MD Expat in PA]

It will likely be banned, if it is effective. The medical profession does NOT want to see a cure for cancer. It is their greatest 'cash cow.'

I know of at least two doctors that cured cancer, both were hounded out of the US.

I know of an auto mechanic who developed a magnetic device made from meteors (ancient alien technology) that when placed on carbonators could improve fuel mileage to +100 miles per gallon. He was the boyfriend of my second cousin twice removed best friend’s hair dresser. He suddenly disappeared too. I think Big Oil got rid of him. Either that or the fact he was a year behind on his child support payments and scamming his customers might have had something to do with it. :) ,

Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big….they are all out to get us.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Probably not. Silver does not equal silver on the molecular level.

Ionic silver, as is found in colloidal silver, is in exceedingly small molecules, so small that it can actually pass into cells without damage. It and several other ionic elements have long been known to inhibit viral reproduction *inside* human cells. That it could also inhibit tumor growth (which is good enough to kill tumors in that they have to grow quickly or die), is a new one.

What we think of as metallic silver, unless it has been especially processed, are relatively huge clumps of silver molecules.

[SuzyQue]

What do you use the oregano and garlic oil for? I mix clove with diphenhydramine cream for poison ivy and insect bites. Works better than anything else out there.

[Smokin' Joe]

I was actually thinking in terms of trace leaching from the flatware and serving dishes, cream pitchers, etc. into acidic food, for instance. While some mechanical transfer might occur, people would tend to avoid being rough with Grandma's 'good silver'.

Much of the older silver plate I have found over the years, in rummage sales or even in dumps, had the silver worn through in places, usually the back side of spoons and forks where oral contact would occur.

[Semper911]

That was a tough story to read about your friend. Try to hang out with him as much as you can. The worst part about having cancer is that it freaks people out and they stop calling and visiting.

I lost many friends because of it — they just don’t want to be invested in the situation. People I knew for years and saw often just faded away during my treatment and subsequent recovery, and still don’t call even though it’s been almost 3 years. I understand that people get freaked out about cancer, but it still sucks.

So try not to be that guy. I remember being almost certain I would end up in a hospice after treatment, and I was sure that dying would be something that I would do alone (except for family visits.) Being a companion for your friend is such an honorable and selfless thing as he heads for the exits. Good luck.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Probably not too much. Let me cite a comparable metal, zinc.

Even the FDA agrees that ionic zinc will “reduce severity and duration” of the common cold. However, the zinc in supplements and even lozenges was just not uptaken by the mucous membranes in enough quantity to do much good.

So the company that makes Cold-Eeze lozenges spent a lot of R&D on finding a form of zinc that was readily uptaken, and they patented it for that use.

It paid off, however, because they are now the only lozenge that can legally put “reduces severity and shortens duration of the common cold” on their label.

[exDemMom]

I have some personal exposure to chemotherapy due to my Labrador Retriever developing cancer late in life. I could afford it at the time, and he was my baby so to speak, so I had him treated for it. Nothing that would make him miserable or sick. The most beneficial thing we did for him was carboplatin and then radiation treatment of the tumor. Not sure why the two were regarded as somehow synergetic, but that’s what I recall. He was never sick, didn’t lose his coat (dogs typically don’t unless they’re a breed noted for not shedding) and the cancer was in retreat. He died of other causes, almost fifteen years old, happy as a clam until the day he died. Still miss him, always will I suspect.

My evil orange cat has had three surgeries to remove tumors. I've pretty much decided at this point not to subject him to more surgeries or to chemo. I feel all guilty when he meows at me and wants to play--his behavior is completely normal, and all I can think about is that his time is limited and there is nothing to be done about it. He's not quite ten, which is middle age for a cat. A healthy cat can survive into its late teens or even early twenties.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s harder with cats, not as many treatment options and the back and forth as well as routine disruption traumatizes them. Dogs being pack animals and inherently more social and sociable, generally don’t have as much of a problem.

Excising the tumor was out of the question with my Lab, it was fairly advanced when diagnosed and he was elderly. I wanted to help him, not traumatize him, sicken him or make him miserable. That dictated a more palliative approach, but it was working well to not just slow the progression but halt and reverse it, and he thrived in the last year of his life, as free from pain as possible and with better mobility than he had before.

I don’t regret doing it in the least, but I really don’t want to know how much I spent. Money is considerably more dear now than it was then.

[Segovia]

My experience with colloidal silver goes back several years. I knew of it’s effectiveness in viral infections through a “dog” my son brought me from Tennessee. This “dog” was half German shepherd and half timber wolf. She was a sweetheart, but due to her obvious wolf traits, and the local laws on keeping hybrids, she had no “puppy” shots. She contracted Parvo, which is a nasty thing for any dog, but wolves are extremely susceptible. Our vet treated her with everything including a week of IVs, antibiotics, antivirus, immune system boosters-— but over a weeks time she sank into a near comatose state. I took her home and kept her hydrated with a syringe, but when I figured she wouldn’t last the night, my friend suggested I start dosing her with the silver stuff in place of other fluids. Next day, she woke up, the next she sat up, and from then on made steady recovery. I know that it killed the virus, if it had the same effect on cancer would be too much to even hope for.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Hey, I was just functioning as a reporter here. I made no comments regarding silver's alleged health benefits nor its risks other than becoming blue. Yes, it does take a lot of silver to turn you blue and few take enough silver to get there. I suspected few freepers had ever seen such in person so I wanted to offer a first hand report that it can and does happen. The ones I've seen from drinking silver were more of a subtle blueish tinged gray color.

The chap pictured upthread far exceeds what I saw or had seen reported in the Dermatologic literature. In the video on him linked upthread blue guy said he'd been rubbing it on his chronic dermatitis in addition to drinking it. Maybe that accounts for the impressive color, he may be more like a silver tattoo. There have been a few reports of localized argyria, the technical term for silver in the skin, occurring after traumatic implantation of silver or silver compounds.

There's been some discussion of semantics upthread. Silver is certainly a metal and it certainly is heavy (as opposed to metals like aluminum.) It doesn't appear to be as toxic as some of the other "heavy metals" like arsenic, lead or thallium. For many things, including at least some heavy metals, positive effects and toxicity are dose related. Arsenic used to be used for many conditions and clearly helped some, but had a poor safety margin and was mostly replaced by newer treatments in the 50s. Gold used to be used a lot for rheumatoid arthritis and was virtually the medical gold standard for that until newer, better, treatments arrived. You did have to monitor for side effects. For those interested, the corresponding term for gold discoloring the skin is chrysiasis. It's subtle, but could be seen in long term users.

Other than skin discoloration I'm not expert on what the risks, if any, of long term silver treatment are. I'm a skeptic as to what benefits, if any, it may offer but realize its believers are not few - just the number of ads I've seen promoting it in Human Events proves that. For common ailments, for which conventional medicine hasn't yet found satisfactory fixes, sufferers will try just about anything regardless of its 'scientific merit' or lack thereof. Living in the birthplace of Chiropractic and having Dungheap Harkin, the leading DC proponent of 'complimentary medicine,' as my Senator has proven that beyond any doubt. For most such, I have as much faith in them as I have in anything else that exits Harkin's mouth. However I don't expect to be rid of them until science has developed clearly superior alternatives as it eventually did for arsenic and gold therapy.

[pandoraou812]

That is my favorite brand. But I do make my own sometimes. I have been taking it for almost 10 yrs for my hep C & it surprises my doctors when I can get my viral load down using it. I've used it to treat my horses sores or cuts etc.. When my 2nd rescued horse came to me with horrible rain rot I poured it on the areas & they cleared up. My vet was amazed at the results because she said it was the worst case she ever saw. Making it is easy but I like the Mesosilver the best. You do not use salt when making it either, distilled water & 99.9 silver coins. I have no blue tone to my skin but you don't drink gallons of it. Works on MRSA too. I've had that enough times to trust the Mesosilver more then the liver killing drugs. Raw honey works well too. I am tired of the nasty drugs the doctors keep giving me.

[ponygirl]

From what I’ve read, the antibacterial properties of silver is why people used to keep silver coins in their water source. So that’s where that old wive’s tale came from about making a wish and throwing the coin in the fountain.

[TigersEye]

Colloidal silver and ionic silver are not the same thing at all.

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