Kidney and pancreatic cancer can be stopped ?
July 14th, 2008 Posted in Nanomedicine NEWS
Californian researchers (San Diego) have developed certain nanoparticles which can deliver drugs to stop kidney and pancreatic cancer in mice. The main advantage is that they have less side effects than chemotherapy.
What is specific about these nanoparticles? They can target exactly the cells that cause cancer. The whole system is based on a protein called integrin, which is located on the surface of “bad” cells.
This research at UCSD, that was done by both scientists and oncologists, showed that kidney and pancreatic cancer can be stopped (in mice).
Every day nanomedicine is growing in a positive way. Let’s hope this will soon be available in clinics and applied to humans.
