Treatment of Breast and Other Cancers Using Zinc Chloride Instead of Radiation

An improved method for treating breast cancer using zinc chloride as an alternative to radiation is provided. Zinc chloride is a deeply penetrating topical medicine that kills cancerous tissue equivalent to radiation. Radiation is time-consuming, costly, and can cause severe radiation-related adverse events, including secondary cancers, lung, and heart damage. An analysis of 20,000 women showed that radiation was able to reduce mortality by 13.2% from breast cancer, but this improvement was offset by radiation mortality from adverse events of 21.2% [Favorable and unfavorable effects on long-term survival of radiotherapy for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomized trials, Lancet 2,000:355: May 20, 2000]. This invention allows the surgeon to destroy residual malignant tissue that surrounds a breast cancer lumpectomy wound equivalent to radiotherapy without the mortality of radiation.