Nanoparticle Kills Prostate Cancer, Not Healthy Tissues ...

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A team led by John Lewis, the Sojonky Chair in Prostate Cancer Research with the canadian University of Alberta?s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and PhD student Choi Fong Cho, have authored a report about a new platform to generate nano-particles to seek out and destroy only cancer cells. ?Chemotherapy ? is indiscriminate,? said Lewis. ?So it kills any cell that?s dividing in the body, and cancer cells are dividing but so are hair cells and immune cells ? and that?s what causes the majority of side effects. So this platform will allow us then to take chemotherapies and avoid those healthy tissues that we need, and specifically kill the cancer cells.? Most of the lab testing, involving animal models, has been for prostate cancer but Lewis noted that the drugs look for a protein only in cancer cells, acting like a ?homing beacon? for many different kinds of cancer.

?If we can use ?smart? drugs that home in on tumours, we can dramatically decrease side effects for patients, lower the chance of recurrence, and hopefully increase the cancer survival rate.?

Sources: http://metronews.ca/
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http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl3034043

Source: http://www.nanocomputer.com/?p=4286

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