Cancer Nano Treatment Doesn't Kill Healthy Cells

Matt Arnold

August 3, 2005

Tags:

• science
• nanotechnology
• futurics
• technology

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According to the BBC, scientists have invented a treatment for cancer using fullerenes coated with a vitamin that only cancer cells have receptors for. The fullerines are heated with a laser to kill off only the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells intact. R's mother is undergoing radiation therapy for a tumor which was recently removed, and it's heartening to know that someday soon radiation and chemo will not be necessary.

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temujin9 on Aug. 3, 2005 8:49 PM

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