Mountain
08-14-2006, 01:04 AM
I just read Heavy Reign's thread and had forgotten that there wer doctors who populated this board. I extend my sympathies to Heavy Reign for the loss of his father.
My mother was recently diagnosed with gallbladder cancer which is apparently a very rare and very deadly form of cancer. The average survival rate of five years is 1 in 20. When the cancer was found it had also spread to the liver.
At any rate, I have been researching cancer treatments and there is a new one which is showing great promise. The new treatment involves the use of nanomolecules to destro cancer tumors. If people are interested do a google search for the name Naomi Halas, who is a professor at Rice who has developed this techology. Close to the top of the search page will be an interview she did with Nova that explains this far better than I could.
She has also founded a company called nanospectra Biosciences that also has their own website.
She has had incredible success using this technique on mice and the the company's website stated they would begin testing the process on humans in late 2006.
MY question to the doctors is how would we be able to get my mother invovled in the human trials that are about to begin? If you read the interview apparently the success rate with mice has been just phenomonal. I have to admit once I read how it works it makes perfect sense to me. The reason it hasn't been developed until now is beacause its an engineering solution to the problem rather than a drug solution. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My mother was recently diagnosed with gallbladder cancer which is apparently a very rare and very deadly form of cancer. The average survival rate of five years is 1 in 20. When the cancer was found it had also spread to the liver.
At any rate, I have been researching cancer treatments and there is a new one which is showing great promise. The new treatment involves the use of nanomolecules to destro cancer tumors. If people are interested do a google search for the name Naomi Halas, who is a professor at Rice who has developed this techology. Close to the top of the search page will be an interview she did with Nova that explains this far better than I could.
She has also founded a company called nanospectra Biosciences that also has their own website.
She has had incredible success using this technique on mice and the the company's website stated they would begin testing the process on humans in late 2006.
MY question to the doctors is how would we be able to get my mother invovled in the human trials that are about to begin? If you read the interview apparently the success rate with mice has been just phenomonal. I have to admit once I read how it works it makes perfect sense to me. The reason it hasn't been developed until now is beacause its an engineering solution to the problem rather than a drug solution. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.