Anti-Impotence Drugs Help Cancer Therapy

Anti-impotence drugs did have a positive side effect to increase the effectiveness of therapy for brain tumor diseases, gastrointestinal and breast cancer.

In a preclinical test known anti-impotence drug known as sildenafil (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra) helps the absorption of chemotherapy drugs into "defense layer of blood" on the part of the brain better. It is important to ensure that the chemotherapy made it to the cancer cells have spread to the brain.

Defense layer of blood in the brain is actually a natural mechanism for protecting the brain from exposure to hazardous substances. In the therapy of brain cancer, this would impede the delivery of drugs, particularly by the drugs with large molecules such as chemotherapy drugs. Well, anti-impotence drug absorption was only made on the part of this defense to be good.

"Although the chemotherapy drugs used for the best, but if the defense can not penetrate the blood in the brain, kemoterapinya impact will not be maximized. Because the anti-impotence drug that allows drugs to reach target cells," said Dr.Keith Black, neurosurgeon from Cedars Hospital -Sinai 's U.S..

Brain tumor caused by the growth of abnormal cells. This condition is either directly or indirectly, damage or destroy the parts that relate to vision, movement, balance, memory, or behavior.