Jacinto Convit
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Jacinto Convit García (born September 11, 1913 in Caracas[1]) is a Venezuelan Medic and Scientist.[1] In 1987, he received a Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category.[1]
In 1988, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, for developing a vaccine to fight leprosy, by combining a tuberculosis (TB) vaccines with Mycobacterium Leprae.
[edit] Cancer vaccine
On June 7th 2010, a Venezuelan newspaper announced the successful development by Dr. Jacinto Convit of a new Cancer vaccine intended to fight colon, stomach and breast cancer.[2]
On June 2010 the "Instituto de Biomedicina" published a note clarifying that they have been working for the last 3 years on a vaccine against cancer and it's still in development. During this time they have been evaluating a small group of 23 patients, mostly breast cancer and a few of colon, stomach and brain cancers. They have been giving patients an experimental model of immunotherapy against cancer, which have had encouraging results. They clarify that is a therapeutic and not prophylactic vaccine. [3]
This vaccine is based on the idea that cancerous cells appear and propagate because the body doesn't detect them. A sample of the tumour mixed with formalin and BCG marks the malignous cells so the immune system reacts and attacks the cancer.
This experimental treatment has a big advantage over the use of traditional quimiotherapy: It has very few side effects. BCG has been used against tuberculosis for a long time on millions of people with no consequences.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Jacinto Convit". Fundación Príncipe de Asturias. 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929082906/http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria512.html. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
- ^ http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/think3/post/venezuela_dr._jacinto_convit_develops_a_vaccine_against_cancer_of_breast_co/
- ^ http://www.biomedicina.org.ve/portal/noticias/1-ultimas-noticias/118-aclaratoria-junio-2010.html
- ^ http://www.biomedicina.org.ve/portal/noticias/1-ultimas-noticias/119-proyecto-de-inmunoterapia-del-cancer-.html
[edit] External links
- [1] Blog about Jacinto Convit's work (in Spanish)
- document Immunotherapy autovaccine for cancer treatment (in Spanish)
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