Cancer drugs should be taken before bedtime

Israeli scientists have It concluded that tumors grow faster at night. And if you use drugs for the treatment of cancer in the night time, they are more effective.

Medicines for cancer

Scientists from Veytsmannovskogo Israel Institute found that cancer cells grow faster and multiply at night, due to the activity of specific cell receptors. Receptors are protein molecules on the cell surface or within that prepared biochemical message from other cells and transmit them inwardly.

EGF receptor growth (EGFR) causes cell growth and migration. But the day of its activity suppressed by other receptors, EGFR and night begins to operate, causing growth and spread of cancer cells. In this way, cancer drugs,   that inhibit EGFR, work better at night While the researchers found.

Clinical Research We have shown that when using the drug lapatinib, used to treat breast cancer, laboratory mice received a greater effect when injected are held at night. All experimental rodents were divided into several groups: in one of them was allowed to cure in the morning, another day, the third - in the evening and in the fourth - the night. It turned out that there was a significant difference between the size of tumors in mice in different groups depending on when they received Cancer Drugs - In a dream or in waking hours.

This study proved that obtained night drugs affect the growth of cancer cells greater. (READ MORE)

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