New Cancer Therapy Completely Destroys Advanced Ovarian and Colorectal Tumors in 6 DaysA new cancer therapy has completely destroyed advanced ovarian and bowel tumors in just six days.
Clinical trials are expected to begin in the next few months, after results on mice were described as “very exciting”.
Pinhead-sized drug ‘factories’ were delivered to give continuous, high bursts of a protein that boosts the immune system.
“We just administer once, but they keep making the dose every day, where it’s needed until the cancer is eliminated,” said co-author Dr. Omid Veiseh, of Rice University in Houston, Texas, whose family friend died of the deadly disease.
“Once we determined the correct dose—how many factories we needed—we were able to eradicate tumors in 100% of animals with ovarian cancer and in seven of eight animals with colorectal cancer.”
The tiny beads have a protective shell containing cells engineered to produce interleukin-2. They could be used to fight the most lethal cancers, including those of the pancreas, liver and lungs.
They can be implanted with minimally invasive surgery, and could be tested on human patients by autumn, so they can get them into hospitals as quickly as possible..........................
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