Nanoparticles Promise More Efficacy In Cancer Treatments
The disease that is widely known as cancer is just uncontrolled cell growth resulted by a host of factors. This growth may be activated by various disorders, the common thing in all these diseases is the fact that they share the attribute of excessive growth of cells.
There are more than 100 different types of malignant neoplastic disease otherwise known as cancer. The malignant cells of cancer can widespread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymphatic system. It is in a single cell where cancer starts. The body is made up of millions of cells, they divide and grow in a controlled manner to keep the body healthy. Old and damaged cells are replaced with new ones. This is a perfectly controlled process that goes on in our bodies to keep us healthy. But sometimes, things go horribly wrong. The DNA of a single cell can change or get damaged. They may mutate, producing abnormal body cells that affect normal cell division and growth. When this happens, cells grow fast and uncontrollably. The extra cells form a mass called neoplasm. Cancer is really too many cells than what the human body can handle.
Modern scientific advances witness breakthrough findings in Nano-technology and its use in medicine. This field is especially beneficial for the treatment of Cancer. ‘Cancer Research’ shows therapies based on nanotechnology with targeted small molecules, in treating cancer. The molecules, otherwise known as nanoparticles, improve the efficacy of chemotherapy. Abraxane is the most commonly used nanoparticle medication. Abraxane, by virtue of being a nanoparticle bound compound, readily dissolves in H2O.
The numerous headlines that you see nowadays on latest research and breakthroughs in Oncology may be somewhat deceptive and could create wild expectations. We are still quite a long way from effective use of the several promising findings revealed by research.
Clinical use of research findings is a typically long drawn out process, it takes years for FDA to approve and millions of dollars in trials and follow up research. Not to mention that for commercially viable production, the market has to accept it. Besides, most promising research may all of a sudden find itself grounded to halt with no progress in sight. This is the nature of technological research, it takes commitment, money and time to follow up on an idea till it becomes a success in real life. The positive outcome of all this research is that significant advance has been made in cancer R and D. Cancer is now more controllable than ever. We all know that the brilliant minds of the science community are progressing in the right direction and let’s hope the dreaded disease will soon surrender to a remedy.