A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago.

The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancerous tumors.

The report describes how researchers believed both organisms thrived under nearly identical metabolic conditions and accumulated large reserves of glycogen, a form of stored energy.

The research also highlighted experiments showing that certain chemical compounds were capable of targeting both parasitic infections and malignant tumors.

One drug, Myracyl D, was reportedly effective against bilharzia parasites as well as cancerous growths, hinting that treatments developed for parasites might also attack tumors.

Other compounds were found to interfere with nucleic acid production, a process essential for the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells.

Experiments on mice even showed that tumor tissues reacted differently to certain chemicals than normal tissues, further reinforcing the perceived biochemical overlap between parasites and cancers.

Although the document was declassified more than a decade ago, it has recently resurfaced online, fueling outrage among some Americans who say it raises troubling questions about why Cold War research hinting at possible cancer treatments sat in intelligence archives for decades.

'The Americans knew. They read it, classified it CONFIDENTIAL, and locked it in a vault for 60 years,' one person shared on X, including the CIA documents in the post.

Another X user said: 'The CIA knew from 1951 that cancer was parasites.'

However, the document itself does not say cancer is caused by parasites, only that a Soviet study noted biochemical similarities between tumors and parasitic worms and observed that some compounds affected both in experiments.

The CIA document was based on a 1950 article published in the Soviet scientific journal Priroda by Professor V V Alpatov, a researcher studying the biochemical behavior of endoparasites, organisms that live inside the body of a host.

American intelligence analysts translated and circulated the paper because it was considered potentially relevant to biomedical and national defense research during the early years of the Cold War.

According to the Soviet research summarized in the report, one of the most striking similarities between parasitic worms and cancer cells was their metabolism.

Parasitic worms that inhabit the human intestine rely heavily on anaerobic metabolism, meaning they generate energy without requiring large amounts of oxygen.


Tumor cells appear to behave in a comparable way, often relying on altered metabolic pathways that allow them to survive in oxygen-poor environments inside the body.

Both parasites and tumors were also observed to accumulate large stores of glycogen, a molecule used by cells as an energy reserve.

This buildup suggested that both types of tissue might operate under unusual metabolic conditions compared with healthy cells.




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Unbelievable

A lot of conspiracy theories are probably true like fake moon landing or Israelis did 9/11.

The conspiracy theory that Israelis are hiding the cure for cancer doesn't seem to make sense though. Think about it, yes Israelis control western governments but they don't control Russia or China. If there was a hidden cure for cancer out there, Russia and China have no reason to play along with the Israelis and suppress it.

This is very naive.

You don't think the sneaky ones would be smart enough to think about that?

You think they are all powerful around the world, but for some reason NOT in the one country where the jews caused a holocaust 10 times larger than the actual holocaust even IF it was "6 million" people?

The bolsheviks in russia who did the holodomor killed TENS of millions of christian russians, but for some reason, you think the jews have never held power in russia?

Are you fucking serious?

Everyone smoked and not many issues with it.

The USSR and US were in a competition setting off nukes. Literally hundreds of nuclear blasts happened in a short time. Radioactive fallout everywhere. The crazy thing about radiation is that by the time you start to feel it, or get symptoms, it's already too late. It can do a lot of damage and you won't feel it for a long time.

Suddenly everyone started catching cancer.

Blamed it on the tobacco, but didn't ban it, just taxed the fuk out of it.