A leading expert claimed that hibernation can effectively treat terminal cancer patients. By just putting and allowing the cancer patients into a torpor state, it scientifically protects the patients from toxic effects of radiotherapy. It slows down the tumor growth while the healthy cells become more resistant to radiation.

According to Marco Durante, a physicist from the Trento Institute of Italy, hibernation could be the cure for cancer. By leading the patients into like hibernating bear wherein they get into a torpor state. The idea is through years of study and research on hibernating animal and people who survive plunged into a deep freeze, The Telegraph has reported.

During in the state of hibernation, in just the form of deep sleep, all the body function like the heart, metabolism and etc. will all slow down. It will all be reduced to a crawling pace and according to Durante, there is already fifty percent of cancer patients already have an advanced cancer.

One cancer patient has multiple tumors in the body and surgery and radiation is not an option. But if putting the patients into torpor stage, a patient can stop the growing of cancer and can stretch time. Durante further claimed that through hibernation, the body can stand the radiation and can wake up, find out that they're already cured, New Scientist has reported.

An estimated timescale of 10 years until the hibernation can be ready. He also added that he's confident about the process and will develop drugs that can induce the torpor. After inducing the torpor, they're going to lower the body temperature into 13C-15C.

Questions might rise, a normal temperature is 37C but there are reports wherein people experiencing much lower temperature wasn't harmed at all. A chief clinician at Cancer Research UK, Peter Johnson stated that the effects of the induced hibernation are hard to predict, but still careful experiments are needed before can conclude hibernation would be safe for people or not.

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