Here’s a description of how this drug works from the DAILY MAIL via MSN:
Lead researcher Professor Marc Vendrell, chair of translational chemistry and Biomedical Imaging at the University of Edinburgh, said: “This research represents an important advance in the design of new therapies that can be simply activated by light irradiation, which is generally very safe.
“SeNBD is one of the smallest photosensitisers ever made and its use as a ‘Trojan horse’ opens many new opportunities in interventional medicine for killing harmful cells without affecting surrounding healthy tissue.”
According to Dr Sam Benson, a post-doctoral researcher at the university, “The mechanism of the drug’s delivery means it is delivered through the “front door of the cell” rather than having to “find a way to batter through the cell’s defenses”.
This technology could be an unparalleled miracle for cancer patients. Not only is a cancer diagnosis one that can devastate families, but the treatment is also often a terrible physical and psychological burden. Because many forms of chemotherapy and radiation target the body’s cells during specific points in the reproductive process, they can cause significant side effects. Their effects are not limited only to the cancer cells. They can also affect other cells in the body at the same point in the cellular reproductive process.
The current treatments are non-specific, resulting in nausea, vomiting and other forms of gastrointestinal problems, hair loss, and skin problems. Having supported more than one friend fighting for her health as she selected the wig she would wear to cover her now baby-fine hair, and held more than one basin while a cancer patient suffered from intractable vomiting, the idea of a drug without these side effects is a more than a blessing. It would also eliminate the need to pile on more drugs to treat these symptoms in an already weakened body.
The application to cancers that patients view as a death sentence, such as pancreatic, some types of brain, liver, and certain leukemias, could give hope to millions in the future. It does not appear from the studies that the treatment would be limited to certain types of cancer, as many forms of chemotherapy are. It simply capitalizes on the fact that all cancer cells are ravenous.
This technology may also have the added benefit of treating drug-resistant bacteria. The resistance of some strains of bacteria to available antibiotics is one of the perplexing challenges in treating infectious diseases. Tuberculosis and staphylococcus both have drug-resistant strains that lead to severe illness and death. That SeNBD as a Trojan Horse may treat these as well makes it a double miracle.
That this treatment has been successful in cellular studies is a significant breakthrough.
Most all cancer chemotherapy works on the fact that rapidly replicating cells are more sensitive to poisons than slow growing cells. Hence why you lose your hair and the lining of your gut during "chemo".
So OK there is a chemical that can be concentrated in the bad cells and when you shine a light it detonates.
Good luck with that - its been tried many times maybe this one will work.
How many times have we heard “Cancer Breakthrough”. BS.
The governments of the world do not want a cancer cure. Cancer mainly hits older adults. They die, no more SS payments. No more medicare payments. They want us to contribute to SS all our working lives, then retire and die ASAP.