Cialis a Cure for Cancer?

Doctors like Dr. Joseph Califano who is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at John Hopkins Hospital based in Baltimore, Maryland, love to deal with drugs that have a proven safety record, like Viagra and Cialis. These are drugs that could be easily approved for other illnesses because of those very track records. These ED (Erectile Dysfunction) drugs could have the versatility of aspirin.

Could the 3 billion dollar ED business be developed into a life saving business? That is precisely what doctors are testing. Currently, more than a dozen experiments are being conducted against diseases and health problems with these medicines.

Brian Kumnick is fighting throat cancer. He is also part of a clinical trial to see if Cialis can help cure head and necks cancers. After months of surgery and radiation, he says the radiation “is really barbaric. I’ve lost my taste buds and I can’t taste anything. Water tastes like acid going down.” On the Cialis treatment he comments, “It’d be really nice to just take a pill that has a pleasant side affect.”

Doctors at John Hopkins say that in preliminary studies that Cialis energizes patient’s immune systems so they can better battle cancer cells. The nest step is to see if these ED treatments can effectively reduce tumor sizes.

While studying the blood in patients with cancer in the head and neck, they had seriously suppressed immune systems, actually up to 80% in some cases. With Cialis , the immune systems in these patients seemed to rev up to near normal levels.

Take the case of a young girl who suffers from pulmonary hypertension. This causes her to pass out from lack of oxygen. Her mother was devastated, all she heard were experts telling her that her little girl needed a heart and lung transplant.

Well Dr. James Swift was thinking outside the box. ED treatments help restricted blood flow, and open up blood vessels. So instead of the transplants, Dr. Swift prescribed Viagra in a liquid form for her which increases the oxygen she desperately needs.

Diabetes, MS, strokes, memory loss, and pelvic pain are other areas in which doctors are experimenting with ED drugs.

In the future, labels on these products may get a whole lot bigger to cover all the issues they can potentially fix.