Professor Israel Gannot at Tel Aviv University, located in Israel, is developing a new method to find and destroy cancerous tumors. This new method uses heat to kill the cancerous cells which would result in less damage to surrounding cells and tissues and fewer side effects for the patient.
Having specific ‘biomarkers’ attached to tumors, a special mixture of nano-particles and antibodies are injected into the blood stream. It finds and binds to the tumor and then the mixture just washes out of the body and has minimal side effects. “Once the nano-particles bind to the tumor, we excite them with an external magnetic field, and they begin to heat very specifically and locally” Gannot explains. After deploying the magnetic field, the temperature rises on the targeted area, and the heat elevation results in killing the tumors.
This new treatment has been effective on epithelial cancers, about 85% of cancers, which could be developed in any area of the body.
One other benefit of this method is the speed of the treatment. It is said to be administered in an outpatient setting and would not exceed more than six hours. This new research will be published in Nanomedicine journal.
hello sir,
I am a student of b.tech biotechnology 3rd year. i read this post, this is a very innovative research which will be helpful to the human welfare. i wanna do my mini project with this topic.
can you please help me by telling me the whole procedure and about that nanoparticle in detail,,i will be thankful to you.