Nanotechnology Treatment for Cancer
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| Image Via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSX6YJTS2I Reflection Nanotechnology is 10,000 times smaller than a hair and the product of manipulating molecules or atoms. Nanotechnology is making great strides in the cancer field due to it’s ability of imaging or tracking treatments, and delivering medicine more directly. Current cancer treatments like chemotherapy attach all cells hoping to kill a tumor. Nanotechnology can deliver drugs to specific areas in the body without killing extra cells. Nanotechnology does this by using antibodies and parts of RNA to locate to specific areas. Current research on location specific drug delivery using antibodies has been in the prostate. This new stride in the cancer field is also useful in detecting cancer cells early, granting doctors the ability to target cells before tumors develop. Nanotechnology has been so revolutionary in the science category that biologist, physicist, engineers, chemists, and mathematicians have all joined this new field. Future steps for nanotechnology include clinical trials which will decide if nanotechnology works not just conceptually in a lab, but in the general public. |
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