Is Nanosilver the Cure for Neuroblastoma Cancer?

Two years ago, young Canadian science student Adam Noble won $42,900 in prizes and scholarships, for his work on using silver nanoparticles to cure cancer.

Now, he’s in medical school, while simultaneously working with several prominent Canadian cancer research organizations to perfect what he believes will be a cure for childhood neuroblastoma cancer – a serious and debilitating form of cancer that kills 50% of children afflicted with it. 

Here’s the story that could eventually change the way thousands of childhood cancer patients are treated, as well as change the outcomes from largely negative to largely positive… 

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…

According to the Canadian newspaper Peterborough This Week, a young Canadian undergraduate science student named Adam Noble “believes he may have discovered a breakthrough in the cure for cancer.” 

In an April 2013 article, the newspaper states, “If all goes as planned, future cancer patients could rely on one Lakefield student's discoveries and research for treatment.”

At age 19, Noble had already gained international fame by winning thousands of dollars in prizes and scholarships for his science projects on silver nanoparticle extraction from waste water – a process he patented and claims will allow waste water treatment plants to reclaim millions of dollars worth of silver from waste water at a relatively low cost. 

Making Money v/s Saving Lives

But making money is not Noble’s main goal in life; helping save lives is. 

Now in medical school, and recently featured on CBC’s The Natural, Noble works in conjunction with The Hospital for Sick Children of Toronto, Canada, which helps fund clinical studies into neurological cancers.

He also works with the University of Calgary and The James Fund of Peterborough, Canada, which helps fund cancer research into childhood neuroblastoma.

According to the newspaper Peterborough This Week, Noble’s latest award-winning work with silver nanoparticles might just be the next anti-cancer breakthrough:

“In working with different combinations of [silver] nanoparticles, Adam has developed a way to target cancer cells and effectively fight them.

…To test his theories, Adam planted a cancerous tumour into a chicken embryo, which then embraced the tumour and grew blood vessels which attached to it.

He then injected the nanoparticles into a blood vessel on the opposite side of the embryo. The particles were immediately directed to the cancerous tumour and within eight days, Adam saw the tumour decrease in size by 45 per cent. After 48 hours, he found 75 per cent of the particles went straight to the tumour.

…So far, Adam has tested the effects of nanoparticles on various cancer cells including neuroblastoma, cervical cancer, skin cancer and lung cancer. The method appears to be universal, Adam says with a big smile.

While he's still modest about the work, he's not afraid to say his research could be a breakthrough. While he's had the support of Sick Kids hospital, the University of Calgary and the James Fund behind him, the research is all his own.

From developing and patenting the filtration method to reclaim nanosilver to coming up with a combination of particles to target cancer cells, Adam is working with products no researcher ever has. 

"I'm very excited," he says. "It's pretty amazing."

According to Dr. David Kaplan, of The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada:

“Adam has come across something original and new. 

And we’re working in a field in kid’s cancer where half the kids with the particular cancer we study, which is called neuroblastoma, will likely die from their cancer, because we have no real treatment…no cure…and we’re looking for new ideas. 

And what Adam has come up with is a new idea.  And that’s great.”

Of course, using silver nanoparticles to stop cancer cells from proliferating, and even to kill them, is not a particularly new idea. 

In fact, many other studies have already been conducted, confirming the ability of silver nanoparticles to kill cancer cells.  For example, see:

·       Silver Kills Some Cancer Tumors Better Than Chemotherapy, Says British Researchers

·       Silver Nanoparticles Stop Cancer Without Toxic Harm

What’s truly new and innovative about Noble’s work is that he’s directing it toward a specific form of cancer -- childhood neuroblastoma – which, as Dr. Kaplan of the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada points out above, kills 50% of those children afflicted with it. 

“Don’t Worry…”

According to an online interview with Noble conducted by Diana Birrell, Executive Director of the James Fund, “Noble is one of the young scientists we’re investing in to bring about the day when no child dies from neuroblastoma cancer.”

Here’s part of the interview:

Diana:  You’re about to work with James Fund scientists Dr. Kaplan and Loen Hansford, some of the best scientists in the world working on neuroblastoma, one of the deadliest cancers in the world. What does that mean to you?

Adam: It’s a dream come true. I think a lot of people my age want to make a difference; we want to contribute and do something that makes the world better.

I never thought I’d have a chance this early in my career and life to work with some of the best scientists on one of the toughest cancers.

I want to learn everything I can and work as hard as possible to help The James Fund see a day when no family loses their child to neuroblastoma.

Diana: What do you hope to come away with from your time with The James Fund?

Adam: …I can’t imagine a better training ground to prepare me for the medical career I hope to have. That’s my professional goal.

But I have a personal one too…I’d like to be part of the team that can turn to the desperate parents of very sick children and say “yes your child has neuroblastoma but don’t worry. It used to be fatal but it’s not anymore.”

I hope to be able to look back one day and have been part of making that possible for sick children and their families. That would mean a great deal to me as a person.

According to the James Fund spokesperson, “With the continued support of The James Fund, Adam’s promising new cancer therapy will go to preclinical trials this fall.  Adam’s planned career path is medical research following completion of a medical degree and a PhD program.”

According to Peterborough This Week, “Pre-clinical trials for Adam’s work in cancer treatment will start up in collaboration with Sick Kids and Princess Margaret hospitals in Toronto.

The medical experiments will be the first of their kind to happen at Trent University. The trials are expensive and the team is currently looking for donations, he says. To learn how to contribute, contact Mr. Noble at adam_noble@hotmail.com.

Mr. Noble says he'll be forever grateful to the James Fund, the Peterborough-based charity focusing on children's cancer research. "Diana (Birrell) at the James Fund really had faith in me and my hypothesis," he says. "Without them, I wouldn't be here."

Colloidal Silver and Cancer

Of course, colloidal silver – a safe, natural nutritional supplement which can be purchased in just about any well-stocked health food store in America -- is often used as a nutritional adjunct to cancer treatment by natural health-oriented individuals. 

Though the FDA frowns on the use of colloidal silver for any medical purpose, many cancer sufferers have claimed to experience dramatic results when adding colloidal silver to their daily nutritional supplement regimen.

For some fascinating but strictly anecdotal accounts of people using colloidal silver to help heal various forms of cancer – including prostate cancer, skin cancer, kidney cancer and more -- see the article at this link, “Colloidal Silver and Cancer.” 

However, always keep in mind that colloidal silver should never be considered a “cure” for any form of cancer, nor a substitute for medical treatment for cancer.  It’s simply a nutritional supplement. 

There have been no clinical studies to date demonstrating that the oral use of colloidal silver, or any other form of silver, can actually cure cancer in human beings, though there have been a number of clinical test tube studies – including Adam Noble’s, discussed above -- demonstrating various forms of silver to kill cancer cells and to reduce the size of tumors. 

This means one should never forego medical treatment in favor of colloidal silver or any other nutritional supplement solely on the basis of online news stories or anecdotal accounts.  Be wise.  Run everything by your specialist. 

Make Your Own Colloidal Silver

Colloidal silver can be very expensive – as much as $20 to $30 for a tiny four-ounce bottle at most health food stores.  But here’s the good news:

If you’re a do-it-yourselfer, like me, you can learn here how astonishingly inexpensive it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver (i.e., about a penny per ounce) with a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

This means there’s no longer any need to pay $20 or $30 for a tiny, four-ounce bottle of colloidal silver in health food stores, when you can make it yourself by the quart for about 32 cents. 

If you’re skeptical, or if you think it must be a difficult process, at this link you’ll discover how incredibly simple it is to make your own colloidal silver.  

Indeed, with a device that’s as simple to operate as a coffee pot (see above photo of the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, or click here), just about anyone can make their own high-quality colloidal silver for just a few pennies per quart! 

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on colloidal silver….

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Important Note and Disclaimer:  The contents of this Ezine have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantee can be made in regards to the accuracy and reliability thereof.  The author, Steve Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing professionally about natural health topics.  He is not a doctor.  Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this Ezine meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice.  Nothing reported herein is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.  The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage.  Therefore, the information and data presented should be considered for informational purposes only, and approached with caution.  Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction, from other knowledgeable sources such as their doctor, the accuracy and reliability of all reports, ideas, conclusions, comments and opinions stated herein.  All important health care decisions should be made under the guidance and direction of a legitimate, knowledgeable and experienced health care professional.  Readers are solely responsible for their choices.  The author and publisher disclaim responsibility and/or liability for any loss or hardship that may be incurred as a result of the use or application of any information included in this Ezine. 

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Has the Solution to “Nanosilver Pollution” Been Discovered?

Young environmentalists are now being trained to work from the standpoint that nanosilver is a “toxic pollutant” that must be detected in the environment, and ultimately eliminated.  But is that true?  Or is it an unproven assumption? 

More importantly, is there a beneficial role for silver nanoparticles in the environment?  And if researchers find a way to eliminate silver nanoparticles from the environment, will there be unintended consequences that will over time negatively impact millions of people? 

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com... 

I recently read several news stories about a young Canadian student named Adam Noble who earlier this year won top honors at an international science fair in Pittsburgh with his project, “Euglena: The Solution to Nanosilver Pollution.”

According to this news article, the young man has demonstrated how to use a particular microorganism called Euglena to help detect nanosilver in the water in wastewater treatment plants, and eradicate it by using the microbe as a “filter” before the water is released back into rivers, lakes, streams and community water supply systems. 

Apparently, the nanosilver can then be collected from the microbes through a chemical process. And over time the silver can be sold for enough money to help pay for the costs of the water treatment.

Very fascinating…and I must congratulate the young man on his scientific acumen and entrepreneurial spirit!

But Since When Is Nanosilver a “Pollutant”?

My question, however, is this:  Since when is nanosilver considered to be a "pollutant"?   

Only 20 years ago, during the time when silver halide was used heavily in the film-making and film-processing industries, an estimated 10 times more silver was making its way into wastewater treatment plants than today. 

But photographic film is hardly used at all now, ever since the advent of digital photography in the early 1990’s.  And as a result, according to the latest estimates, the levels of silver in wastewater have been reduced dramatically, in some cases by as much as 90%.

Yet back in the late 1980’s when levels of silver in wastewater had reached an historic peak before plummeting, there were no shrill cries over silver "pollution" and no attempts to curtail the levels of silver in wastewater plants by banning the use of silver in the photography and film-making industries.    

So why today, when so little silver is making its way into the environment compared to two decades ago, are we hearing the constant hysterical cries of the environmentalists who say we must ban the use of antimicrobial silver in all consumer products, or face an ecological Armageddon?

Blame It On the Rain?

After all, the environment itself -- including the land, oceans, rivers, lakes and streams -- are already literally awash in millions of tons of nanosilver in the form of trace mineral silver that's always there naturally.  And yet no environmental catastrophe has ever ensued from this decided abundance of nanosilver in nature. 

What's more, it's only recently been discovered that Mother Nature routinely makes her own silver nanoparticles, and has been doing so for millennia.  Indeed, she’s apparently the world's most prolific producer of silver nanoparticles.  (See "Is Mother Earth Making Her Own Colloidal Silver").

Does Nature Use Silver Nanoparticles

To Help Control Infectious Microbes?

So, here’s another question:  What if silver nanoparticles are one of nature's many ways of controlling the spread of infectious microorganisms on this earth? 

Indeed, far from being a “pollutant,” what if nanosilver is, in fact, absolutely necessary to the ecology, lest insects, animals and human beings alike become awash in infectious microorganisms and disease? 

And what if science projects like this young man's -- which assume nanosilver is a "pollutant" and makes no attempt to distinguish between levels of man-made nanosilver in the environment, and natural levels of nanosilver -- ultimately lead to the ability to eliminate silver nanoparticles from local, regional and national water sources? 

What then?  Would we be safe from so-called "nanosilver pollution"?  Or would we then be more exposed to infectious microorganisms than at any time in our history?

Law of Unintended Consequences

These are the kinds of questions I like to ask, before assuming anything. 

The law of unintended consequences states that even the most well-intentioned actions always have consequences that are unanticipated.  And this law comes into play most often when people assume something to be true that isn’t, and then base their work around that erroneous assumption. 

If nanosilver is assumed to be a “toxic pollutant,” rather than a necessary environmental protectant, what would be the unintended consequences of eliminating it?

Today, radical anti-silver environmentalist who are said to be taking millions of dollars in contributions from charitable foundations set up by Big Pharma are working to eliminate the use of silver nanoparticles in consumer products. 

By doing so, they prevent consumers from being able to purchase products that help stop the spread of infectious microorganisms and disease around the home and office. 

And of course, they do so under the banner of “saving the environment” from an “ecological catastrophe” they claim will undoubtedly ensue if the use of antimicrobial silver in consumer products is not soon banned altogether. 

But as I’ve pointed out many times in past articles, for some 120 years now nanosilver has been used widely in commercial applications – including swimming pools, spas, water fountains, water filters, commercial disinfectants, cleaning agents and much more with literally zero negative effects on the environment.

So why has there been no environmental catastrophe in over 120 years, in spite of this widespread use of man-made nanosilver? 

It’s because over time nanosilver is widely known to fall to the bottom of aquatic bodies and waterways, where it’s incorporated into sediments and bound with organic material such as sulphur, at which point it’s essentially neutralized, losing its supposed “toxic” nano-scale properties.  

In other words, nature, which makes its own silver nanoparticles, also has its own way of protecting us from any excess buildup of nanosilver!

So while some of the silver that man takes from the environment, modifies into nanosilver and utilizes in consumer products ends up back in the environment over time, it still poses little or no harm to the ecology. 

More Important Questions…

Therefore, I have to ask again:  Is it realistic to label nanosilver as a dangerous “toxic pollutant,” as the radical anti-silver environmentalists do? 

Or is that merely a red herring being used by the environmentalists and their benefactors in Big Pharma to eliminate the availability of consumer products that protect us from the indiscriminate spread of infectious microorganisms? 

Another question:  Are innovative science projects like the one discussed above necessary to help prevent a potential future environmental catastrophe?

Or are they merely exercises in environmental self-aggrandizement being carried out by well-intentioned environmentalist-oriented youngsters operating under the preconceived but misguided and biased notion that nanosilver is an inherently evil “pollutant”?

Unfortunately, young environmentalists today have been trained to work solely from the assumption that silver is a "toxic pollutant" with no value whatsoever to the environment and its ecology.

They don’t question this assumption.  They don’t even ask for the evidence – even though it’s an assumption that would place Mother Nature as one of the world's top environmental polluters, since she is indeed the world's most prolific producer of silver nanoparticles.

The bottom line is this:  Maybe nature has a good REASON for producing silver nanoparticles.  Maybe labeling nanosilver as a "pollutant" and working to eradicate it from our environment altogether is going to cause more problems than it fixes. 

And what if that's the whole plan, anyway? 

Well, as conspiratorial as that may sound, it’ certainly something to chew on as we watch the environmentalists continue to rail against a supposed “threat” that’s not caused any harm in 120 years. 

I’ll write on this topic again in the near future.  But please let me remind you that when you own the means of colloidal silver production, there’s nothing the environmentalists and their bureaucratic counterparts can do to stop you from enjoying access to safe, natural antimicrobial silver and all of its infection-fighting benefits. 

So learn more about making your own colloidal silver by clicking the link. In the meantime, I remain…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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