Across the UK, there is increasing use of drugs known as “Farp inhibitors”, which help patients with hereditary cancer. Now researchers believe that it is possible and soon it will be possible to use drugs not only as a treatment for those who have cancer, but also as a preventive treatment that will help prevent the disease
Researchers believe that it is possible and soon it will be possible to use the drugs called “PARP inhibitors”, which help patients with hereditary cancer, not only as a treatment for those who have cancer, but also as a preventive treatment that will help prevent the disease, as was published today (Thursday) in ‘News 12’ .
Prof. Harvey Newell from the University of Newcastle who participated in the research claimed that “PARP inhibitors will be used as a preventive drug to stop certain cancers from appearing”, according to him “we are moving to the next stage in the fight against cancer”.
In fact, PARP is an enzyme found in all our cells and plays a key role in helping cells repair damaged DNA – and thus maintain themselves. The PARP inhibitors are used as an anti-tumor treatment by stopping the enzyme in the cancer cells from repairing the cell itself and thus the cancer cells die.
Newell explained that “uncovering the way in which the PARP enzyme helps the cancer cell repair itself led to the discovery of the chemicals that can interfere with this process. This is the result of decades of research in biology laboratories across the UK – which helped develop these new drugs.”
Prof. Steve Jackson from the University of Cambridge, a cancer expert who heads a group of researchers that played a central role in the discovery and development, explained that “we found the Achilles heel of cancer cells and learned how to use this information to destroy them”, he added that “when we first developed The ‘parap inhibitors’ were given to people who were sick in an advanced stage of cancer,” he said, “they had nothing to lose. “Today they are given at an earlier and earlier stage of the disease. One of the women I treated who was in an advanced stage of cancer started taking the ‘parap inhibitors’ 9 years ago. Today she is completely clean and without any symptoms,” said Steve.