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Title: Could Bee Venom Lead to Cancer Treatment?
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Published: Aug 14, 2014
Author: Nick Tate
Post Date: 2014-08-18 17:21:42 by BTP Holdings
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Could Bee Venom Lead to Cancer Treatment?
Thursday, 14 Aug 2014 04:23 PM
By Nick Tate
Bee venom has been shown to contain a component that may block tumor growth in new research that suggests it may be useful in treating some types of cancer.

In a study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, scientists separated proteins and peptides from bee, snake, and scorpion venom to test their anti-cancer properties, http://Time.com reports.

They found that a specific component of bee venom, called melittin, prevents cancer cells from spreading without harming patients. Because bees only produce a small amount of venom, researchers made synthetic melittin in the lab to test their theory.

“We have safely used venom toxins in tiny nanometer-sized particles to treat breast cancer and melanoma cells in the laboratory,” lead researcher Dipanjan Pan said in a statement. “These particles, which are camouflaged from the immune system, take the toxin directly to the cancer cells, sparing normal tissue.”

Pan says the next step is to start trials. The findings were presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.

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I was a beekeeper in Illinois. Been stung so many times I am likely immune to honey bee venom. ;)
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
There will be a cure for cancer in a few short years, I am convinced.

Diana posted on 2014-08-18 18:06:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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Beekeepers Have Low Incidence of Cancer ? « on: January 04, 2012,
Found this on another Page thought a few may like the read
apitherapy.blogspot.com/2...-incidence-of-cancer.html
Honeybees Health Benefits and Cancer Inform Africa, December 25, 2011
…Beekeepers have the lowest incidence of cancer of all the occupations worldwide. This fact was acknowledged in the annual report of the New York Cancer Research Institute in 1965. Almost half a century ago, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 9(2), Oct., 1948, published a report by William Robinson, M.D., et al., in which it was claimed that bee pollen added to food (in the ratio of 1 part to 10,000) prevented or delayed the appearance of malignant mammary tumour.
L.J. Hayes, M.D had the courage to announce, “Bees sterilise pollen by means of a glandular secretion antagonistic to tumours.” Other doctors, including Sigmund Schmidt, M.D., and Ernesto Contreras, M.D., seem to agree that something in pollen works against cancer.
Dr W. Schweisheimer also said that scientists at the Berlin Cancer Institute in Germany had never encountered a beekeeper with cancer. A French study concerning the cause of death of 1,000 beekeepers included only case of a beekeeper that died of cancer. The incidence of cancer-caused deaths in a group of French farmers was 100 times higher than the group of beekeepers.
Till date, no study has faulted the fact that beekeepers have very low, almost negligible incidence of cancer worldwide. Due to the weight of this fact and coupled with his experience, John Anderson, Professor of beekeeping, University of Aberdeen, unequivocally declared: “Keep bees and eat honey if you want to live long. Beekeepers live longer than anyone else”.
But why and how do bee stings prevent or heal cancer? First, the major component of bee sting venom is mellitin, which has powerful bacterial and cytotoxic properties. The mellitin in bee venom activates two main glands – adrenal cortex and the hypophysis, which in turn begin to secrete hormones that have strong anti-inflammatory effect. Cancer and many other degenerative diseases are often preceded by inflammation. Bee venom also stimulates the immune system and cancer is less likely to gain a foothold in those with strong immune system.
Nothing promotes blood circulation better than the bee venom, which dissolves plaque in blood vessels and flush it out to ensure free flow of blood. Bee venom contains proteins and amino acids (18 of the 20 obligatory amino acids). When small doses of bee venom gets into the blood they compensate for the deficit of amino acids, make active hormones and vitamins, lower the level of cholesterol and have a positive effect on fat metabolism....
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Re: Beekeepers Have Low Incidence of Cancer ? « Reply #10 on: January 06, 2012 A little more summary, after some more time with a search engine and the AAS site TBeek linked. Just a note, none of what follows applies to desensitization immunotherapy, the one medical use of venom which has been widely studied and well-understood. I'm talking about studies investigating the medical use of venom as a treatment for illness in humans.
No double-blind clinical trial has ever been conducted on bee venom treatment, that I can find. In most, participants as well as researchers know whether they are assigned to be given venom or not. Most trials lack any control. All controlled trials I can find have been venom vs. another medication, and do not include placebo. These are not invalid but they cannot be used to exclude placebo effect as the mode of action.
Reputable clinical trials to prove the safety of venom treatment are very common. In the absence of allergic reaction, bee venom is clearly harmless when administered at doses used in apitherapy.
But all of the clinical studies those examining effectiveness of bee venom as a medical treatment are either single case studies or very small (<100 participants total) and very short (less than 6 weeks of treatment) studies, and most are performed in countries without robust academic review systems. The most reputable academic institution to publish on the topic in the last 10 years was a department of acupuncture and moxibustation at a medical college in South Korea....and that paper, pretty well-written, was a literature review which found only one controlled trial, and none which were double-blind. Not a single one is published in a peer-reviewed journal in the US or Europe. The AAS journal lacks a peer-review system, and regularly publishes non-academic testimonials.
The best designed studies on venom were not medical trials but scientific basic research. Good animal studies have found that injected venom has anti-pain and anti-inflammatory effects and compounds which, when isolated, display a variety of positive effects.
It is not unreasonable that osteoarthritis, at least, and potentially many other inflammatory and chronic pain disorders would respond well to bee venom.
However, at present there appears to be exactly zero legitimate medical research on the topic. Its unfortunate that the large apitherapy societies persist in publishing air castles and sprang-from-my-deathbed testimonials instead of gathering their resources to conduct large, well-designed clinical trials.
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Tatarewicz posted on 2014-08-19 2:30:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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Beekeepers have the lowest incidence of cancer of all the occupations worldwide. This fact was acknowledged in the annual report of the New York Cancer Research Institute in 1965. Almost half a century ago, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 9(2), Oct., 1948, published a report by William Robinson, M.D., et al., in which it was claimed that bee pollen added to food (in the ratio of 1 part to 10,000) prevented or delayed the appearance of malignant mammary tumour.

I was a beekeeper in Illinois for years. Couldn't bring the hives with me, but I'm sure they are well taken care of by someone else who is a beekeeper. Right now, I need to get this infection in my legs under control. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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