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Posted 4/17/2010 10:33 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting article.  I like to follow nano-tech, because I think it will be the first treatment to turn cancer into a chronic illness. 

These people are having success with simply injecting nano particles into the blood stream.   I like nano-tech  because it is just a "seek and kill" treatment.  With drugs you have to first find something that will "seek" and then find a drug that will also kill.  Nano-particles are gaurnteed to kill.  They only have to find the cell first.  Which means nano-tech only has to deal with half of the problem, the seeking part.  The kill part is not of any part of the problem that has to be resloved.

http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsid=17070

Posted 4/18/2010 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
It is an interesting concept. Thanks for posting it. It's exciting to think what might be discovered and/or used to treat or prevent PC one day. These very well might be looked upon in the future as the "brutal days" of surgeries and high doses of radiation.

If either of my sons have the misfortune of following my steps into PC (ages 26 & 32) I hope and trust that they will have better choices in front of them, then any of us currently with PC.

David in SC
Posted 4/18/2010 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for posting this link.

Interesting to speculate what will happen in the future re PCa treatment.

Skeener

Posted 4/18/2010 4:32 AM (GMT 0)

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the 'heads-up' on this very interesting development in nano technology. Hopefully it will turn into another tool to fight this dreaded disease.

All the best to you.

Magaboo

Posted 4/20/2010 7:35 PM (GMT 0)
This is the type of thing that begs for research money. 82% reduction in tumors in 3 weeks is SIGNIFICANT.

Can this become the "gold" standard in treating PCa someday? Well, as the saying goes "money talks" and it will take some money to get this going from mice to men.

Posted 4/20/2010 11:04 PM (GMT 0)

As brave - but still comparatively lonely - medical voices are starting to say, every dollar that goes into addressing the question "how can men be encouraged to get screened" is a dollar taken away from projects to, e.g., understand prostate cancer biology, to develop tests to distinguish life-threatening tumors from indolent ones, and to finance developments in nano-technology.

Otis W. Brawley, "Prostate Cancer Screening: Is This a Teachable Moment?", 101 JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 1 (October 7, 2009).

But there is a lot of money to be made by a lot of people from the status quo.

Zen9


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