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Marianna Mirzoyan, Medical news based on Cancer Research UK: Can graviola (soursop) cure cancer?"Copy this and post it on your wall!!!

Guanabana or the fruit of the graviola tree is a miracle product that kills cancer cells. Now you can help your neighbor by telling him that you need to drink guanabana juice to prevent the disease. It tastes good and its use does not entail the terrible consequences of chemotherapy." The text about the magical properties of a tropical fruit is extremely popular. Users of social networks respond to the call to repost, share information that was "kept in the strictest secrecy, so as not to put at risk the multimillion-dollar profits of large corporations."

I really want to believe that there is a universal cure for cancer, and any cancer can be defeated. But, unfortunately, this is just a myth.

"Every cancer is a different disease. Diseases manifest and proceed in different ways, even if they affect the same organ, - says oncologist, candidate of medical sciences Mikhail Laskov, – there is pancreatic cancer with metastases, you live with this diagnosis for a maximum of a year, and with an endocrine tumor of the pancreas, like Steve Jobs, you can live for a long time and during this time, make an iPhone." Patients and their loved ones are often not ready to accept that the disease cannot be cured or the chances of recovery are low. At the same time, people tend to divide medicine into two types. Traditional medicine – we treat one thing, we cripple the other, and a wonderful alternative – natural, natural remedies that are useful and safe. "This approach is no good. It is impossible to contrast one with the other, – explains Mikhail Laskov, – From a plant that has been used by doctors of Chinese medicine for many centuries, a popular drug for chemotherapy "Irinotecan" was obtained. But the effectiveness and safety of any method must first be proved. Otherwise, it's pure extreme. It's like flying on an airplane that has never been tested." And even if guanabana shows promising results in the treatment of any type of cancer, many years of research involving several thousand people must first pass. Success in animal or cell culture studies means little: only 60 percent of the drugs that have reached human studies prove their effectiveness and safety.

The "strongest anticarcinogen on this planet" guanabana grows in the rainforests of Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. It is called sour cream apple or graviola and is traditionally used for making desserts and drinks, used for fever and as a sedative. However, from the point of view of science, the properties of this tropical fruit have been studied only in vitro, large-scale studies involving humans have not been conducted. There is no evidence that the tropical plant works as a cure for any cancer. There is not enough data to judge the safety of such treatment. It is not known how the fetus interacts with other medications, drugs for chemotherapy. Research results show that the plant damages the nervous system.

There is a widespread opinion that pharmaceutical companies have agreed not to put effective cancer drugs on the market. They specially sell expensive medicines that do not help well in order to get the patient hooked on treatment that allows them to pump all the money out of him. "This theory is refuted by the pharmaceutical business itself," says Mikhail Laskov, "to invent a blockbuster drug that will close the issue of a certain oncological disease is the main goal of companies. A good example is the drug "Glivek" for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Previously, people died from this disease within a year or two, and nothing could be done. Now the medicine exists, people survive and live for years, and the company has earned enormous money."

Mikhail Laskov is convinced that before making a repost, it is worth making sure that the information is true: "As for the secret cure for cancer, people need a miracle. Miracle, authority and mystery – the exact formulation of Dostoevsky. That's how it is here. "Powerful pharmaceutical corporations are hiding a universal cure for cancer – an exotic fruit that works miracles of healing."

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