Gold Nanoparticles Prove Effective For Highly Targeted Cancer Treatment With Low Collateral Damage - Polidicks

[I][QUOTE][/I]A study investigating an explosive cancer therapy that was developed two years ago by scientists at [URL="http://news.rice.edu/2014/06/01/quadrapeutics-works-in-preclinical-study-of-hard-to-treat-tumors-2/"]Rice University[/URL] has demonstrated its highly promising potential against stubborn drug-resistant cancers in pre-clinical animal trials. The technology, dubbed “quadrapeutics”, marries four clinically approved existing treatments in a lethal combination that is capable of seeking out and destroying cancer cells whilst leaving surrounding non-cancerous tissue unharmed. The study has been published in [I][URL="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3484.html"]Nature Medicine[/URL].Some particularly aggressive cancers, such as head and neck or brain cancers, are [URL="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3484.html"]highly resistant[/URL] to chemotherapy and radiotherapy and thus are exceedingly difficult to treat, resulting in poor survival rates. Furthermore, if the tumors are interlaced with non-cancerous tissues then surgery may not be able to remove all of the cancerous tissue. Therefore, there has been in a pressing need for the development of novel therapeutics that can amplify existing treatments whilst leaving surrounding healthy tissue unscathed. In order to achieve this, Rice University [URL="http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3484.html"]combined[/URL] encapsulated drugs, colloidal gold nanoparticles, short laser pulses and X-rays into a novel system that amplifies the effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy within cancerous cells. “Quadrapeutics shifts the therapeutic paradigm for cancer from materials- drugs or nanoparticles- to mechanical events that are triggered on demand only inside cancer cells,” said Dmitri Lapotko, lead author of the study, in a [URL="http://news.rice.edu/2014/06/01/quadrapeutics-works-in-preclinical-study-of-hard-to-treat-tumors-2/"]press-release[/URL]. “Another strategic innovation is in complementing current macrotherapies with microtreatment. We literally bring surgery, chemotherapies and radiation therapies inside cancer cells.[/I][I][/QUOTE] [/I]Anything in general that utilizes in antibody targeting is a much more effective treatment compared to traditional chemo/radiation. This alongside [URL="http://web.ornl.gov/sci/nsed/fcid/nuc_med/program4.shtml"][COLOR=#3388dd]Bismuth treatment[/COLOR][/URL], will hopefully pass FDA clearance soon.

We're getting close to beating those fucking lumps, guys. Now we just gotta see how badly the American medical cartels fuck up by charging insane prices for this kinda cancer therapy.

I read about this 10 years ago in an issue of national geographic back when it was just an idea

Will mining blood become a thing now? Jokes aside; this is awesome news.

One of my biggest hopes is to see cancer beaten in my lifetime, and news like this makes me feel like it may just be possible.

[QUOTE=emmkai;45022677]One of my biggest hopes is to see cancer beaten in my lifetime, and news like this makes me feel like it may just be possible.[/QUOTE] Considering that cancer is a wide range of diseases and disorders that can be vastly different from one individual to the other even for one type of cancer, I'd say it's in the same ballpark as "cure all mental illnesses".

Givin' cancer the 'ol Midas touch, eh?

[QUOTE=emmkai;45022677]One of my biggest hopes is to see cancer beaten in my lifetime, and news like this makes me feel like it may just be possible.[/QUOTE] If this happens.. I'll be shocked. My biggest hope is people on Mars.. and even that seems distant

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;45022707]Considering that cancer is a wide range of diseases and disorders that can be vastly different from one individual to the other even for one type of cancer, I'd say it's in the same ballpark as "cure all mental illnesses".[/QUOTE] man if you were gonna shit on his hopes you could have just directly done it

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[QUOTE=solid_jake;45023012]man if you were gonna shit on his hopes you could have just directly done it[/QUOTE] My point was that "cancer" is not one thing, it's a fucking huge category of things. Some cancers are curable, some cancers are treatable and some cancers are very hard address. That's not even getting into at what stage the cancer is detected and a whole buttload of other factors. Sometimes it's not even the cancer that kills but associated complications. There's not going to be one thing that's gonna be able to fix it. Each cancer is basically its own separate disease in the way it's treated. Just in the same way you're not giving someone antibiotics for the flu, one cure for one cancer most likely won't work for another type of cancer.

I hope I don't see my life beaten during my lifetime.

Cisplatin will always be my cancer treatment of choice. Because why kill cancer when we can polymerize it [DEL]and the host[/del].

[QUOTE=StrawberryClock;45023290]My point was that "cancer" is not one thing, it's a fucking huge category of things. Some cancers are curable, some cancers are treatable and some cancers are very hard address. That's not even getting into at what stage the cancer is detected and a whole buttload of other factors. Sometimes it's not even the cancer that kills but associated complications. There's not going to be one thing that's gonna be able to fix it. Each cancer is basically its own separate disease in the way it's treated. Just in the same way you're not giving someone antibiotics for the flu, one cure for one cancer most likely won't work for another type of cancer.[/QUOTE] While that's true, part of the cure for cancer is advanced diagnosis which allows us to detect any cancer and specifically identify it, then later genome sampling can identify it further so the correct drug can be targeted at the correct area instead of the broad chemo/radiation which just shits on the entire body hoping you are stronger than the cancer I think all cancers will be treatable at some point, detection technology will allow us to catch the really weird ones as well as the usual ones in the early stages