Wednesday, February 17, 2016

New non-invasive Cancer treatment developed

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.

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