Cancer cure news update: T-cell treatment, chillies proved to help cure cancer

Cancer remains to be one of the leading causes of death in the world today. Yet new treatments are being discovered by medical experts to help prevent fatalities among patients.

A new medical research breakthrough suggested that the CAR-T cell treatment for blood cancer patients can help cure several forms of cancer, including the rampant lung and breast cancer.

Associated Press reported that the medical researchers from the City of Hope cancer facility in Duarte, California discovered that cancer cells could be killed when they began the CAR-T cell treatment in the brain of a patient who was diagnosed with brain tumor.

The treatment reportedly worked when the doctors dripped genetically modified T-cells into the brain to attack and kill the cancer cells.

"The idea was to have the flow of the spinal fluid carry the T cells to different locations," City of Hope's neurosurgery chief Dr. Behnam Badie told the press.

The 50-year-old patient Richard Grady reportedly received six T-cell infusions through a small tube that was connected to his brain each week after three of his largest tumors were removed. This reportedly helped in removing all the remaining tumors in his head after the 10th treatment.

On the other hand, Mirror UK posted a report saying that scientists from Germany's Ruhr-University discovered that the capsaicin found on chilies can also help in fighting the big C, since it can speed up the death of the cancer cells in several types of cancer such as breast, colon and pancreas.

According to the report of D. Lea Weber that can be found on the "Breast Cancer — Targets and Therapy" journal, "Capsaicin is capable of inducing apoptosis (cell death) and inhibiting cancer cell growth in many different types of cancer, for example, osteosarcoma, colon, and pancreatic cancer cells, while normal cells remained unharmed."

More studies about cancer treatments are expected to emerge in the coming days.