Doxycycline can CURE melanoma in humans

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A great study and perhaps the first that confirmed in humans the already well-known anti-cancer effects of the tetracycline antibiotic family. Considering the almost complete ban on the word "cure" scientific journals have bestowed on cancer-related publications using non-mainstream therapies, the fact that this article/study was allowed to utter it speaks volumes by itself. Unfortunately, I cannot get access to the full study as Sci-Hub has stopped indexing new studies since the beginning of 2021 (due to legal challenges in India) so I can't post about what dosages of doxycycline were found to be effective in both the rodent and the human patient reported in the study. However, other recent human studies have demonstrated great effects in breast cancer from 200mg doxycycline daily, so this is probably a good starting dose to try for most cancers.
EDIT: See my comment 2 posts down on antibiotics and dosages used.

Activation of the integrated stress response confers vulnerability to mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics in melanoma | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press
"...The ability to adapt to environmental stress, including therapeutic insult, contributes to tumor evolution and drug resistance. In suboptimal conditions, the integrated stress response (ISR) promotes survival by dampening cytosolic translation. We show that ISR-dependent survival also relies on a concomitant up-regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis, a vulnerability that can be exploited using mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics. Accordingly, such agents sensitized to MAPK inhibition, thus preventing the development of resistance in BRAFV600E melanoma models. Additionally, this treatment compromised the growth of melanomas that exhibited elevated ISR activity and resistance to both immunotherapy and targeted therapy. In keeping with this, pharmacological inactivation of ISR, or silencing of ATF4, rescued the antitumoral response to the tetracyclines. Moreover, a melanoma patient exposed to doxycycline experienced complete and long-lasting response of a treatment-resistant lesion. Our study indicates that the repurposing of mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics offers a rational salvage strategy for targeted therapy in BRAF mutant melanoma and a therapeutic option for NRAS-driven and immunotherapy-resistant tumors."

Antibiotics may help to treat melanoma
"...Researchers from KU Leuven may have found a new weapon in the fight against melanoma: antibiotics that target the 'power plants' of cancer cells. These antibiotics exploit a vulnerability that arises in tumour cells when they try to survive cancer therapy."
"...The researchers implanted patient-derived tumours into mice, which were then treated with antibiotics -- either as the only treatment or in combination with existing anti-melanoma therapies. Leucci: "The antibiotics quickly killed many cancer cells and could thus be used to buy the precious time needed for immunotherapy to kick in. In tumours that were no longer responding to targeted therapies, the antibiotics extended the lifespan of -- and in some cases even cured -- the mice."
 
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Thank you.

Here is a link to the full text of an earlier version.

Edit - I just corrected the lnk.

Thanks. For some reason they do not mention the docycycline dosage in that link too, but they do say that the patient had metastatic melanoma, which is almost universally lethal. After a few months on doxycycline therapy her primary lesion AND her metastases completely cleared up! The mouse model used a very similar antibiotic - tigecycline - at a HED of about 3.5mg/kg. That means for most people 200mg-300mg of that antibiotic or doxycycline should be able to replicate the study design.
 

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Wow this is incredible information , Thanks !
What a screwed up world we live in..................
 

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A great study and perhaps the first that confirmed in humans the already well-known anti-cancer effects of the tetracycline antibiotic family. Considering the almost complete ban on the word "cure" scientific journals have bestowed on cancer-related publications using non-mainstream therapies, the fact that this article/study was allowed to utter it speaks volumes by itself. Unfortunately, I cannot get access to the full study as Sci-Hub has stopped indexing new studies since the beginning of 2021 (due to legal challenges in India) so I can't post about what dosages of doxycycline were found to be effective in both the rodent and the human patient reported in the study. However, other recent human studies have demonstrated great effects in breast cancer from 200mg doxycycline daily, so this is probably a good starting dose to try for most cancers.
EDIT: See my comment 2 posts down on antibiotics and dosages used.

Activation of the integrated stress response confers vulnerability to mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics in melanoma | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press
"...The ability to adapt to environmental stress, including therapeutic insult, contributes to tumor evolution and drug resistance. In suboptimal conditions, the integrated stress response (ISR) promotes survival by dampening cytosolic translation. We show that ISR-dependent survival also relies on a concomitant up-regulation of mitochondrial protein synthesis, a vulnerability that can be exploited using mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics. Accordingly, such agents sensitized to MAPK inhibition, thus preventing the development of resistance in BRAFV600E melanoma models. Additionally, this treatment compromised the growth of melanomas that exhibited elevated ISR activity and resistance to both immunotherapy and targeted therapy. In keeping with this, pharmacological inactivation of ISR, or silencing of ATF4, rescued the antitumoral response to the tetracyclines. Moreover, a melanoma patient exposed to doxycycline experienced complete and long-lasting response of a treatment-resistant lesion. Our study indicates that the repurposing of mitoribosome-targeting antibiotics offers a rational salvage strategy for targeted therapy in BRAF mutant melanoma and a therapeutic option for NRAS-driven and immunotherapy-resistant tumors."

Antibiotics may help to treat melanoma
"...Researchers from KU Leuven may have found a new weapon in the fight against melanoma: antibiotics that target the 'power plants' of cancer cells. These antibiotics exploit a vulnerability that arises in tumour cells when they try to survive cancer therapy."
"...The researchers implanted patient-derived tumours into mice, which were then treated with antibiotics -- either as the only treatment or in combination with existing anti-melanoma therapies. Leucci: "The antibiotics quickly killed many cancer cells and could thus be used to buy the precious time needed for immunotherapy to kick in. In tumours that were no longer responding to targeted therapies, the antibiotics extended the lifespan of -- and in some cases even cured -- the mice."
arent antibiotics prescription only so wouldnt big pharma want studies like this and benefit from antibiotics being used or advertised as cancer cures? also does the mechanism that they improve cancer by involve any damage to the organism. for instance i think even the wikipedia article or somewhere mentioned that beta lapachone or something from pau d arco could help cancer but the doses needed to do so would be toxic to the rest of the body as well.
 

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arent antibiotics prescription only so wouldnt big pharma want studies like this and benefit from antibiotics being used or advertised as cancer cures? also does the mechanism that they improve cancer by involve any damage to the organism. for instance i think even the wikipedia article or somewhere mentioned that beta lapachone or something from pau d arco could help cancer but the doses needed to do so would be toxic to the rest of the body as well.
Prescription only =/= patented and profitable.
Generic meds cost nothing and there's little to no profit to be made on them.
 

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