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Tobacco being used to help cure cancer?
Posted Jul 30th 2007 2:26PM by Brian White
Filed under: Drug, Cervical Cancer
Talk about an oxymoron: U.S. researchers have stated that they're
using tobacco plants to derive a drug to prevent cervical cancer. Sounds odd, huh?
Since cervical cancer is caused by diseases that are transmitted by sexual activity (a virus), finding a "vaccine" would go a long way in some countries to decreasing the numbers of females who contract this particular type of cancer.
This tobacco-based vaccine would be used in India initially, according to scientists. Right now, there is no information on which other countries would have a possible drug coming their way based on the tobacco plant.
Tags: cervical cancer, CervicalCancer, tobacco
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