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Happy hormone can do more than just make you feel good. What might be one of the most significant medical discoveries ever, a 14-year study by two Kolkata-born scientists states that dopamine -known as the happy hormone -can also kill tumours.
 Trials on mice have been successful, say researchers <keyword id="581835" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Partha-Dasgupta">Partha Dasgupta</keyword> and <keyword id="1286549" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sujit-Basu">Sujit Basu</keyword>. If human trials succeed, <keyword id="6355291" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Cancer">cancer</keyword> cure will get significantly cheaper -a chemo course costs lakhs, while a vial of dopamine comes for just Rs 25. Dasgupta is an emeritus professor with <keyword id="1583414" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chittaranjan-National-Cancer-Research-Institute">Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Institute</keyword> and Basu, a professor at Wexner Medical Centre, <keyword id="123150" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ohio-State-University">Ohio State University</keyword>. Like penicillin -said to be the biggest medical discovery in history -the cancer-killing property of dopamine was discovered almost by accident, when the duo was carrying out random tests to analyze the hormone. 

	Opamine is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate movement and emotions. The duo says it also starves cancerous tumours of blood, causing them to shrink and eventually vanish. "Tumour cells multiply rapidly, making them swell very fast. We concluded that if the growth of blood vessels can be checked, tumours will stop growing and disappear. In animal-model experiments, we observed that dopamine acted very well on cancerous tumours, effectively countering vascular endothelial growth factor (that helps tumours grow)," Dasgupta told TNN. 
 But dopamine fluctuation could lead to serious disorders like Parkinson's disease. "We need to know more about its efficacy in the long-run," said oncologist <keyword id="470646" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gautam-Mukhopadhyay">Gautam Mukhopadhyay</keyword>. 
	 
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A breakthrough medical discovery: “Happy Hormone” can cure tumours

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