(STUDY FINDS) – A tiny implant has cured mice of breast cancer in just two weeks, according to a new study. The self-charging battery enables a new class of medications to kill tumors, leaving healthy tissue alone.
Scientists in China explain that the device runs on salt water injected into the cancerous area, causing consumption of oxygen. Cancer cells starve without the gas, a condition called hypoxia. The technique boosts efficiency of HAPs (hypoxia-activated prodrugs) that seek to exploit this trait by only killing hypoxic cells.
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“After 14 days, the tumors in the five mice that received both the working battery and HAP treatment had decreased by an average of 90 percent – with four of these mice experiencing complete tumor disappearance,” says lead author Professor Fan Zhang from Fudan University, according to a report in New Scientist, per SWNS.
