Il cancer it is no longer as scary as it used to be, because many are recovering from this disease and also because research is making great strides, even Italian research, to try to defeat the disease with new technologies. It is news in the last few hours, for example, that a new drug composed of nanoparticles has been developed that can penetrate directly into the metastases caused by breast cancer in organs such as lungs and liver, destroying them completely.
For now, the new nanopharmaceutical it was tested on mice, with results defined as "stunning". Tests on humans will also begin soon, as can be read in the research, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, 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 Mauro Ferrari says, "proves capable of completely treating lung and liver metastases in animal models, i.e. in mice with breast cancer. In fact, approximately 50% of guinea pigs achieve complete recovery, with a human equivalent of over twenty years of life without evidence of residual tumor."
It is a great result, given that "there are no therapies currently available for metastatic tumors, of breast origin or of any other origin". In short, new hope for patients, especially those who were terminally ill or who considered themselves terminally ill.
