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Nanotechnology and Cancer Treatment
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Posted by Dale McCarty on 03/19 at 07:15 PM
Being a person with cancer, the potential of nanotechnology to be utilized in cancer treatment is exciting. I have papillary thyroid cancer, tall cell variant, whcih is diffiuclt to treat. Thyroid cancers are immune to chemotherapy treatments, the main treatment is radiation/ iodine treatment. If the cancer becomes immune to this treatment there are few options avaliable.
Dr Langer from the MIT Koch cancer center is going to begin human clinical trials this year using nanotechnology in the treatment of prostate cancer. In his lab trails using rats and mice implanted with prostate cancer they were able to cure the animals of cancer using nanotechnology.
Hopefully there will be human trials availble using nanos to treat thyroid cancer in the near future.
Dale
Posted by Rahul on 10/25 at 01:26 AM
My wife is suffering from panreatic NET.
Its irresectable and she is only 27 yrs. Being engineer i use to wonder if any non conventional way is available/can be trialed to get rid of cancerous cells. Nano tec. was on top of my list, but i have very limited knowledge of this area.
Seeing he go through bouts of nausea, diarrohea and hair fall makes me sad, any help on applicability of Nano Tech. for her treatment would be highly appreciated.
Posted by Parth Yadav on 03/01 at 04:51 PM
I think that nanotechnology can only work once a method is found to kill the cancerous cells first. If we are using the same chemicals and methods of treatment as before, except this time they are in a small capsule hardly the width of pin; then treatment has actually gotten nowhere.
Posted by Steven on 07/27 at 04:14 PM
Many chemotherapy drugs could potentially kill the cancer cells if they could be administered in sufficient strength. However, because of toxicity concerns for the patient, the drug can't be given in such a strong dosage. This is where nanotechnology could potentially come in. If you could somehow target the drug to the tumor while sparing healthy cells, you could deliver dosages that are extremely toxic to the tumor.
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