ISLAMABAD – Researchers have developed a new treatment cum innovation forthe cancer patients.
As per the online report, an innovative, personalized absorber that can”catch” toxic chemotherapy drugs when they “leak out” of a treated organhas been revealed. This could help reduce the adverse side effects of thesecancer treatments.
A team of researchers from institutions across the United States —including the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and the Universityof California, San Francisco (UCSF) — has recently developed a tiny deviceakin to a sponge, which is set to absorb chemotherapy agents after theyhave reached their target.
The aim of the absorber is to minimize the toxic side effects ofchemotherapy drugs, which, although they have a potent effect againstcancer tumors, also attack healthy organs and tissue and can impair theirfunction.
The device is 3-D printed, so it can perfectly fit the vein of anyindividual receiving a chemotherapy treatment. Its absorbent polymercoating is able to “soak up” the toxic agents after they have passedthrough the organ that the treatment is targeting.
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So far, the researchers have tested this new device as an aid tochemotherapy for liver cancer, as the therapeutic drugs travel to the liverin the bloodstream, which can increase the risk of toxic side effects.
The researchers have reported their experiments and findings in a studypaper that has appeared today in the journal ACS Central Science.
