Nanofibers cause the cancer to migrate

Glioblastoma is the most lethal kind of brain cancer, and at the same time, one of the reasons why the disease is difficult to treat is that tumor cells had spread to other areas of the brain, touching the nerve fibers and blood vessels. Now, when using nanofibers, biomedical engineers have created a way to "bypass" this feature migration and find out how you can "seduce" the malignant cells to gather in other place, according to a medical study published on 13 July 2014 in the medical journal "Nature Materials".

The idea is to entice the migrating cancer cells to a more accessible location where they can be killed. For example, it is "malignant" place may be behind at all outside of the brain.



While this method is unlikely to remove the cancer completely, the hope remains that one day this deadly disease will be transformed into one that can be treated chronic. When the researchers tested this method on animals, they found that the result was a decrease in the size of the tumors in the brain.

Scientist Ravi Bellamkonda, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Developments of Technology Emory University in Georgia, explains:

"There are no drugs entering the bloodstream and circulating in the brain, which can damage healthy cells. Treatment of these cancers minimally invasive medicine can be a lot less dangerous than deploying pharmaceutical chemicals."

Source: globalscience.ru