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Anyone familiar with "nanoparticles"?

coloCan
coloCan CSN Member Posts: 1,944 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
I'm not scientifically inclined so I hope I'm correct in exsplaining this as a subject I keep reading about in the emails I get on cancer is "NANOTECHNOLOGY" as a potential means to destroy cancer.As I understand it, super microscopically small particles which can tell cancerous from healthy cells are sent to site of tumor with chemo attached and only cancer cells are attacked.Theretically, this will be less harmful to healthy cells and have less side effects than current chemo.
Another avenue being investigasted is that of vaccines.
The use of botanical substances is also being advanced as a cure for cancer

Never give up...Steve
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    nanoparticles
    nano is 10 to the -9. In general it is very small. nanoparticles by themselves are pretty much useless. But antibody-nanoparticle conjugates can be very selective. They can seek out and invade any tissue they are targeted for. Now this doesn't particularly mean anything, but if you can then excite those nanoparticles then you might be able to induce hyperthermia. Or perhaps the nanoparticle itself maybe poisonous. Abraxane is currently being used. It is a chemotherapy agent encased in an albumin nanoparticle.
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    nanoparticles
    nano is 10 to the -9. In general it is very small. nanoparticles by themselves are pretty much useless. But antibody-nanoparticle conjugates can be very selective. They can seek out and invade any tissue they are targeted for. Now this doesn't particularly mean anything, but if you can then excite those nanoparticles then you might be able to induce hyperthermia. Or perhaps the nanoparticle itself maybe poisonous. Abraxane is currently being used. It is a chemotherapy agent encased in an albumin nanoparticle.

    Two new articles on nanotechnology today
    "Nanotechnology Tackles the Two Biggest Problems Associated With Chemotheraphy" and

    "Drug Delivery Breakthrough: Vehicle That Can Carry Drugs to A Specigfic Organelle Inside the Cell"

    Check out "Sciencedaily.com" probably one of the best sites on web for such info-it issues articles on research about to be published in scholarly, medical, scientific,etc journals, publications, etc.....steve
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    coloCan CSN Member Posts: 1,944 Member
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    snommintj said:

    nanoparticles
    nano is 10 to the -9. In general it is very small. nanoparticles by themselves are pretty much useless. But antibody-nanoparticle conjugates can be very selective. They can seek out and invade any tissue they are targeted for. Now this doesn't particularly mean anything, but if you can then excite those nanoparticles then you might be able to induce hyperthermia. Or perhaps the nanoparticle itself maybe poisonous. Abraxane is currently being used. It is a chemotherapy agent encased in an albumin nanoparticle.

    Two new articles on nanotechnology today
    "Nanotechnology Tackles the Two Biggest Problems Associated With Chemotheraphy" and

    "Drug Delivery Breakthrough: Vehicle That Can Carry Drugs to A Specigfic Organelle Inside the Cell"

    Check out "Sciencedaily.com" probably one of the best sites on web for such info-it issues articles on research about to be published in scholarly, medical, scientific,etc journals, publications, etc.....steve
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