Chemotherapy

Many of us drink green tea for its wonderful health benefits. Now, for the first time, green tea has been used to deliver drugs to cancer cells, with promising results including more effective tumor reduction and reduced accumulation of drugs in other organs.

Researchers at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) Cancer Center have created a multi-tasking nanoparticle shown to be effective in both diagnosis of tumors and drug delivery. The flexibility could lead to new treatment options for cancer patients, while reducing side effects.

Scientists at MIT report creating a revolutionary building block technique that's enabled them to load a nanoparticle with three drugs. The approach, they say, could be expanded to allow a nanoparticle to carry hundreds more, paving the way for new types of cancer treatments.

Researchers have found charged polymers have the ability to specifically target cancer cells, opening the door for nanoparticles containing cancer-fighting drugs to deliver their payload directly to the tumor.

A new treatment for lymphoma and leukemia is more effective than chemotherapy, and avoids the toxic side effects.

A new drug delivery system for treating lung cancer allow chemotherapeutic drugs to be inhaled, thereby delivering the drug where it is needed while reducing the harmful effects to other organs.

US researchers are developing a promising technique that will target and kill cancer cells while simultaneously treating others.

Presage Biosciences has developed an in-vivo test for effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs before committing the patient to a particular course of treatment.

A new technique involves forming a nanobubble inside the protective outer wall of a cancer cell, in order to deliver chemotherapy drugs more effectively

Researchers at Northwestern University are claiming to be the first to develop gold nanostars that deliver a drug directly to a cancer cell’s nucleus.

NovoTTF is first ever FDA approved cancer treatment for patients as an alternative to chemotherapy .

Molecular scientists are using infrared light to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors without damaging healthy tissue.