Why Future Cancer Patients Will Not Need Wigs and will do much better on the whole than ever before

WigSalon.com has learned that new medical technology is being developed that will make wigs, needed for medical reasons, largely a thing of the past.

(PRWEB) May 8, 2009 -- WigSalon.com has a large client base who wear wigs for various reasons, and often have a very personal interest in cancer therapy. Joseph Aronesty, the president of WigSalon.com spoke with Rachel Levine, public relations spokesperson for Cleveland Biolabs, the New York company developing a remarkable new medicine that will eliminate hair loss after chemotherapy or radiation therapy. "It's very likely that hair loss during radiation and chemotherapy is going to be a thing of the past in about 4-5 years."

It's very likely that hair loss during radiation and chemotherapy is going to be a thing of the past in about 4-5 years.

Why not try to do the opposite in normal cells to help them survive radiation?

The future of the wig business will be more hair fashion than the medical necessity. That's a good thing for women everywhere. We're making sure that wigs are easy to wear and style; we're keeping the fun in the wig and hair fashion, so our future remains healthy

Radiation therapy is a mixed blessing for cancer patients: It destroys tumor cells but also inflicts harm on healthy tissues, particularly the spleen, bone marrow, and gastrointestinal tract. Researchers at Cleveland Biolabs report a new way to protect those tissues, one they claim also improves outcomes of radiation therapy, including the mitigation of hair loss during therapy.

Radiation induces damage in healthy tissues not by directly killing cells but by prompting them to commit suicide through a process called apoptosis. Andrei Gudkov, a co-author and a molecular geneticist at Cleveland Biolabs thought," Why not try to do the opposite in normal cells to help them survive radiation?"

By modifying a small fragment of a Salmonella flagella, his team found that mice and rhesus monkeys injected with CBLB502 45 minutes to 24 hours before exposure to lethal radiation were more likely to survive, or survive longer, than animals that did not receive the drug. The drug also helped prevent death in mice when administered an hour after the animals received a radiation dose. There were no obvious side effects to the drug, and the animals did not lose hair. In fact, their coats were shiny and new like young animals in spite of the treatment they were going through. The researchers showed that the radiation was still effective in treating tumors in mice that had received CBLB502.

CBLB502 is being tested this summer in cancer patients (head and neck cancers) and healthy humans as well (military). Those interested in being part of the study group, should contact Cleveland BioLabs, a publicly traded company, 73 High St. Buffalo, NY 14203, stock ticker: CBLI, at (716) 849-6810.

Cleveland BioLabs, a Buffalo, New York, company that owns the drug, views CBLB502 as an adjuvant to radiotherapy, but also hopes to sell it to governments as a preventive medicine to be stockpiled for a nuclear war, dirty bomb, or nuclear accident. WigSalon.com sells name brands wigs at discount prices from their website, and Miami Beach location. "The future of the wig business will be more hair fashion than the medical necessity. That's a good thing for women everywhere. We're making sure that wigs are easy to wear and style; we're keeping the fun in the wig and hair fashion, so our future remains healthy," says Joseph Aronesty, president of WigSalon.com.

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