Deep inside a University Texas-San Antonio key card protected lab in the bio-sciences building something awesome is happening in Cancer treatments.
"It's all focused on an anti-cancer therapy we developed about 2 years ago."
That's
Matthew Gdovin. He's an associate professor of physiology in the bio
department. He's leading a team of 18 students develop a way to kill
cancer by turning it on itself.
"What we did was figured out a way
to make them so acidic on the inside, the cells go into cell death,
it's called apoptosis, they kill themselves."
They've taken on a common killer, triple negative breast cancer. It's one of the most aggressive and hardest to beat.
An
otherwise harmless chemical compound called nitrobenzaldehyde is
injected into the tumor, and then a beam of light takes aim. Put the two
together: suicide by science. Two hours after the treatment, 95 percent of the cancer cells were killed.
"As a cancer biologist we want to improve the quality of life after
cancer diagnosis and I think these results are pretty much showing we
can actually do that."
Chemotherapy kills all the cells, good and
bad, leaving many patients bald and sickly. This therapy will hopefully
be able to attack the tumors surrounded by vital organs, leaving them
intact, and the patient cancer free.
Gdovin and his team hope the treatment can be ready to be rolled out next year for phase 1 clinical trials.
This site is for information on the various Chemo treatments and Stem Cell Therapies since 1992. This journey became bitter sweet in 2014, with the passing of my beautiful and dear wife. Sherry, had fought Non - Hodgkins Lymphoma(NHL) since 1990, in and out of remissions time and time again. From T-Cell therapies(1990's) to Dual Cord Blood Transplant(2014), she was in Clinical Trials over the years. This site is for informational purpose only and is not to promote the use of certain therapies.
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