PURE water is the latest weapon against cancer. Vets in the Netherlands have shown that, in dogs at least, it can reduce the recurrence of a kind of skin cancer.
Mast cells, a type of immune cell found in the skin, cause 1 in 5 cases of canine skin cancer. They also absorb water particularly well: place them in pure water and they soon swell up and burst. So after tumours were removed from 17 dogs, Isabelle Neyens of Utrecht University tried injecting deionised water into the wound once a week for five weeks. In 15 dogs no tumours grew…
