This
was St Vincent's Private Hospital urologist Phillip Stricker, speaking
of an emerging treatment for prostate cancer that involves zapping the
tumour with more electricity than a bolt of lightning."You can't underestimate the potential of this technology," Professor Stricker said.
"It's going to save a lot of people from having unnecessary surgery."
The technology is known as the "nanoknife".
Traditional methods of treating prostate cancer, which attack the whole prostate with radiation or surgery, often come at the cost of the patient's continence or erectile function. The nanoknife targets only the site of the cancer, destroying the cells of the cancer without the structures surrounding it, including the erectile and urethral nerves. Urologists in three countries are trialling the technology on patients who have a single site of localised prostate cancer that needs more treatment than active surveillance. About 15 to 20 per cent of prostate cancer patients are suitable for the treatment.
Demonstrating that in a study of 25 patients, in 76 per cent of cases the cancer had not returned after eight months.
None of them developed incontinence or impotence.
Glioblastoma
multiforme, a cancer of the brain also known as "octopus tumors" because
of the manner in which the cancer cells extend their tendrils into
surrounding tissue, is virtually inoperable, resistant to therapies, and
always fatal, usually within 15 months of onset.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-11-nanocarriers-brain-cancer-therapy.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-11-nanocarriers-brain-cancer-therapy.html#jCp
Glioblastoma
multiforme, a cancer of the brain also known as "octopus tumors" because
of the manner in which the cancer cells extend their tendrils into
surrounding tissue, is virtually inoperable, resistant to therapies, and
always fatal, usually within 15 months of onset.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-11-nanocarriers-brain-cancer-therapy.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-11-nanocarriers-brain-cancer-therapy.html#jCp
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