[aruanan]

"Our next step is to look at ways to more precisely target the nanotubes so they attach to, and are taken up by, cancer cells while avoiding normal tissue."

Find some tumor-specific receptors and attach the ligands to the nanotubes.

[Sandreckoner]

“Find some tumor-specific receptors and attach the ligands to the nanotubes.”

As is the case with other attempts at molecular targetting, they’re apparently seeing residual uptake where they’d prefer not to. For this method to be effective they’ll need to develop a targetting and delivery system flexible enough to account for the wide disparities between one cancer and another.

[Free_in_Alabama]

This is where the research is starting to get good. How do you get something inside just cancer cells? Or how do you attach to just cancer cells? When those questions are answered then fill the nanotubes with chemo, RF them, attach radioactive elements ...

The researchers are getting closer to those questions. Some drugs already target specific cancer proteins for very specific cancers. Some of these antibodies (protein receptor) are being combined with Radioactive elements to pinpoint radiation. More of these drugs are in the pipelines in Phase 2 and 3 trials.

We have been able to cure cancer in mice for 30 years.