Using Radio Waves and Nano fibers To Kill Cancer

[onesandzeros]

Who would have thought it possible? Great article from LA Times worth reading. Amazing what the free mind is capable of.
. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-cancer2nov02%2C0%2C4741362.story?coll=la-tot-topstories

[vhawk01]

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Who would have thought it possible? Great article from LA Times worth reading. Amazing what the free mind is capable of.
. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-cancer2nov02%2C0%2C4741362.story?coll=la-tot-topstories

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The problem with this is really the same as the problem with chemotherapy. It is very difficult to isolate cell-surface markers that are ONLY found on cancer cells. There are a couple candidates right now. Once we find markers that are ONLY on cancer cells, then developing antibodies to these cells would be the next important step. Once we've figured THAT out, killing the cancer is the easiest part. Using radio waves, using chemotheraputic agents, whatever. The hard part about treating cancer isnt killing to cancer. Thats easy. The hard part is killing the cancer without killing the patient. Thats really hard, especially for some types of cancer, because most chemotherapies merely target "rapidly dividing cells" which, unfortunately, are skin cells, hair cells, and more important bone marrow cells, epithelial cells.

The article was neat, though. But the problem is, in order to use this type of technology, we must FIRST have ways of targeting these nanoparticles specifically to tumor/cancer cells. We dont really have fantastic ways of doing this yet.

[onesandzeros]

No doubt.