More medicine to the tumour using ultrasound and microbubbles
Focused ultrasound, gass-filled microbubbles and nanoparticles filled with chemo can cure cancer in mice and reduce the tumour size in patients. How is this possible? Read more in this blog post at Forskning.no (in Norwegian): Mer medisin til kreftsvulsten ved hjelp av ultralyd og mikrobobler
Microbubbles and focused ultrasound cure tumours in mice
A prerequisite for successful chemotherapy is that the drugs reach its target, and that damage to healthy tissue is limited. However, when drugs are injected into the blood, less than 1% of the drugs accumulate in tumours. Microbubbles combined with focused ultrasound shows great promise…