Scientists say that they can effectively turn off cancer as they have found a code to perform the before-impossible task. Experiments made it possible for the researchers to make cancerous breast and bladder cells benign again.

The researchers are of a firm belief that they can replicate the benefits for many other types of cancers as well. The US researchers have made a breakthrough in the field of biology, providing the code, the software for not allowing the cancer to grow.

The code is actually a new strategy got cancer therapy. A lot of progress still needs to be made in technique, but initial results have made sure that cancer will not claim as many lives in future as it is in the present the scenario.

What sets the new technique apart from the previous ones is it does not kill the cancer, instead it makes the cancer ineffective by depriving it of its arms and making it harmless.

A protein called PLEKHA7 is very important as helps healthy cells clump together. The protein does not allow cancer cells to multiply over and over and form tumors.

It was learnt from the research of the Mayo Clinic in Florida that the protein was either absent or faulty in a range of cancers. Senior researcher Panos Anastasiadis led a research team that successfully reset the instructions and turned off the cancer. The research claimed that it is absolutely within the realms of possibility to turn highly dangerous bladder cancers normal again.

Dr Anastasiadis, whose father died of bladder cancer, said, “Initial experiments in some aggressive types of cancer are indeed very promising. Maybe years down the road this can make difference for someone with bladder cancer. That would be nice”.