Il cancer it is no longer as scary as it once was, because many people recover from this disease and also because research is making giant strides, including Italian research, to try to defeat the pathology with new technologies. It is news in the last few hours, for example, that a new drug composed of nanoparticles capable of directly penetrating the metastases caused by breast cancer in organs such as the lungs and liver has been developed, destroying them completely.
Anti-metastasis drug: the tests carried out
For now, the new nanopharmaceutical was experimented on mice, with results defined as "stunning". Tests on humans will also begin soon, as stated in the research, published on Nature Biotechnology magazine, the result of the work of a team of researchers from the Houston Methodist Research Institute, led by Mauro Ferrari.
The nanodrug (scientifically called iNPG-pDox), as he tells Mauro Ferrari, ”proves capable of completely curing lung and liver metastases in animal models, i.e mice with breast cancer. In fact, approximately 50% of guinea pigs reach the complete healing, with a human equivalent of over twenty years of life without evidence of residual tumor.”
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It is a great achievement, given that “I am not there currently available therapies for metastatic tumors, of breast origin or of any other origin”, except for some border procedures. In short, new hope for patients, especially those terminals or whatever they considered as such.
