• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I can destroy 99% of cancer cells in a lab using a hammer. The important part is whether you can do the same in a person without killing them.

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      2 years ago

      You’d think that it would be a might difficult getting a hammer into a body, but I salute you.

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        Yeah I’ve read the article and I’ve gone and had a little look at the scientific paper as well. The paper only mentions the effect of the molecule on cancer cells and does not mention what effect it has or may have on normal tissue. Interestingly for their mice model they delivered the drug intratumourally. To me this suggests that the drug is not selectively taken up by the tumour cells and they you need to get around this by limiting the delivery of the drug to the site of the cancer. This is just my speculation though. However, if true it would have implications on the practicality of using this method as a cancer therapy.