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Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

Pretty anazing stuff!

The cancer treatment with micro particle that release cancer drug in cancer cell only is in current practice . Mr. Rudy Giuliani has been treated in that way for his prostate cancer at the beginning of his campaign for the US senator from NY(Hillary was his opponent).

Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

Is this science fact? (I seriously don't know)

Are there "nanoparticles" that can differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells and attach themselves?

The way I'm reading this...that science/capability exists and Angela's idea is the addition of the melt-able, medicated polymer to the existing, cancer-cell-attaching-nanoparticles.

If the cancer-cell-attaching-nanoparticles don't currently exist (or are not know to be possible) then isn't this just a "wouldn't it be cool if..." story?

Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

I believe that Pyramid Diagnostics labs was doing something similar back in the late 80s, early 90s, but were using radioactive isotopes, rather than anti-cancer meds.

The only reason I'm aware of this is that I helped install the network at one of their locations, I believe in TN, but it's been so long I really can't recall. It was weird hearing a gieger counter clicking all the time, and the lab employees REALLY freaked when I threw a printer test page in the trash. Turns out it was marked with the radioactive symbol, and the Dept of Energy seemed to frown on that sort of thing... Nothing was actually radioactive, it's just the paper was marked with the warning symbol.

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