The new treatment may offer a viable option for unbeatable cancer.
for cancer for many years, only to fail. This is because even if some trials work, they always leave remnants of the cancer that then come back stronger and more unbeatable than before.Scientists Tanja Weil and David Ng of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now taken a closer look at cancer’s countermeasures in an attempt to stop them in their tracks,
by the institution on Thursday. “By disrupting the cellular components that are responsible for converting oxygen into chemical energy, they have demonstrated initial success in eliminating cells derived from untreatable metastatic cancer,” says the statement.They started with the premise that cancer cells are highly adaptive and able to develop mechanisms to avoid the effects of applied treatments.
The researchers developed a synthetic drug that travels into cells where it reacts to conditions found inside and triggers a chemical process. The drug’s molecules then proceed to bind together and form tiny hairs that are a thousand times thinner than a human hair. “These hairs are fluorescent, so you can look at them directly with a microscope as they form,” says Zhixuan Zhou, an Alexander-von-Humboldt-fellow and first author of the paper.
Cancer is a debilitating disease with complicated treatment options that often simply do not work. Any research that takes these processes forward and comes up with more effective treatment options is always welcome. Could this be the key to suffocating cancer once and for all? More research needs to be done, but it does seem promising.
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