New Cancer Treatment

Targeted nanoparticles show success in clinical trials  Targeting Lung, Breast, Prostate and other tumors.

Tiny particles designed to home in on cancer cells achieve tumor shrinkage at lower doses than traditional chemotherapy.

 

An artist's rendering of BIND-014.
Image: Digizyme, Inc.



In the study, which appears April 4 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the researchers demonstrate the particles’ ability to target a receptor found on cancer cells and accumulate at tumor sites. The particles were also shown to be safe and effective: Many of the patients’ tumors shrank as a result of the treatment, even when they received lower doses than those usually administered.

This information is from the MIT information services. 
To read the full article, click link below;
  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/cancer-particle-0404.html

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