New Delhi: Cancer cases are soaring up across the world. In India, around 14.1 lakh new cancer cases have been registered and over 9.1 lakh deaths have been reported due to the disease. As per the numbers, India is set to become the highest contributor to the disease across Asia, reported the Lancet Health Southeast Asia Journal. Cancer is one such disease that does not have a cure yet. However, scientists have been working day and night to find a cure for the deadly disease, there are treatments to reduce the risk of pain, but not a complete cure. One such treatment is the chemotherapy procedure, most recently some researchers have developed a new heat-based approach to cancer treatment that may reduce the chemotherapy doses.
Scientists of the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, and an autonomous institute have found a treatment that consists of a combination strategy that uses 17-DMAG, an inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90), in concurrence with the magnetic hyperthermia-based cancer Therapy (MHCT) can enhance the work of heat-based cancer treatments.
How effective is the new procedure?
According to the study, this technique is capable of boosting and improving the effectiveness of the treatment by reducing the required chemotherapy doses and offering one of the auxiliary treatments that may reduce the side effects. When the test was initially conducted on the animal models, it was found that administering the combination via intro-tumoural injections released the maximum glioma cell death in a rat glioma model with tumour inhibition rates touching the 65 per cent and 53 per cent at the main and secondary tumour sites. This was done respectively within 8 days.
Side effects of the treatment
The study further noted that the procedure is less invasive and leads to some side effects. As per the research team, the magnetic nanoparticles were exposed to some other magnetic field (AMF) which can fight the tumours.
According to the study, this technique is capable of boosting and improving the effectiveness of the treatment by reducing the required chemotherapy doses and offering one of the auxiliary treatments that may reduce the side effects. Health Conditions Health News: Latest News from Health Care, Mental Health, Weight Loss, Disease, Nutrition, Healthcare
