Cancer is a disease that causes the death of a large number of people every year. For this reason, it is natural for sick people to seek all possible ways to try to cure themselves. One of the alternatives would be the so-called cancer pill (phosphoethanolamine).
1. What is the cancer pill?
The cancer pill, according to its creator, presents as an active principle (substance that acts against a disease) the phosphoethanolamine.
2. Phosphoethanolamine Chemistry
Phosphoethanolamine is a substance organic whose structure is:
Structural formula of phosphoethanolamine
She presents in her composition atoms in carbon and hydrogen. In addition to these chemical elements, others are also part of its composition, such as:
Oxygen (O)
Nitrogen (N)
Hydrogen (H)
Phosphorus (P)
3. Where was phosphoethanolamine developed?
The pill was developed at the University of São Paulo (USP) in São Carlos by the group of research chemist Gilberto Orivaldo Chierice. The research has been carried out for over 20 years.
4. Does it really work?
Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) does not recognize its effects, regardless of whether one or another patient was successful during the more than 20 years that the substance was distributed to patients with cancer.
To assess the risk-benefit ratio in relation to phosphoethanolamine, many studies and tests in humans are needed. We can only say that the cancer pill really works if its benefits outweigh its toxic (harmful) capacity.
5. How is it produced?
Phosphoethanolamine, the main component of the cancer pill, is produced from the chemical reaction between two substances:
Ethanolamine
Ethanolamine structural formula
Phosphoric acid
Structural formula of phosphoric acid
When these two substances react, a water molecule is formed, as we can see in the equation that represents the process:
Equation representing the formation of phosphoethanolamine
As we can see, the water molecule is formed by the union of the OH group (blue circle) of ethanolamine and a hydrogen (red circle) present in the acid. Soon after, the carbon (blue arrow) that loses the OH group joins the oxygen (red arrow) that has lost the hydrogen, forming phosphoethanolamine.
6. Can it be consumed by everyone?
The use of this substance is still very controversial. For a drug to be approved and released for use in human beings, several researches and tests are needed.
With phosphoethanolamine, the tests and research done so far are not conclusive. Furthermore, cancer is a disease that has different behaviors in the human body. Therefore, many researchers do not believe in the effectiveness of a single drug for all types of cancer.
By Me. Diogo Lopes Dias
