This cancer drug uses 50 times less chemo-medication


Scientists have made an existing chemotherapy drug more effective by killing drug-resistant lung cancer cells using 50 times less of the medication than currently required.

Researchers have for the first time packaged the drug paclitaxel in containers derived from a patient's own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed by the body's own defences and bringing the entire payload to the tumour. "That means we can use 50 times less of the drug and still get the same results," said Elena Batrakova from the University of North Carolina.

"That matters because we may eventually be able to treat patients with smaller and more accurate doses of chemotherapy drugs resulting in more effective treatment with fewer side effects," she added...............Read more

 

Source: The Times of India

 


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