Gold and silver have qualities which lend themselves to medicinal purposes. Gold has also been given to arthritis patients for many years, and helps relieve some of its more debilitating symptoms. Now comes word from Discover News that a cancer treatment using gold is close to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. DN reports that: “The treatment works by attaching drugs to a molecule of colloidal gold, which then carries the drugs through the bloodstream to target cancer tumours. Colloidal gold has been used for decades as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, demonstrating that it can be an effective treatment.”

The World Gold Council, in a posting on gold.org notes that the procedure, so far only tested on animals, but which holds significant promise, attacks cancer tumors in a fundamental way, noting: “The gold nanoparticles used carry anti-cancer drugs to tumors, where they accumulate because of the leakiness of blood vessels within the tumor.”

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