Australian scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse"

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Australian scientists have developed a "trojan horse" therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs.

The "trojan horse" therapy has the potential to directly target cancer cells with chemotherapy, rather than the current treatment that sees chemotherapy drugs injected into a cancer patient and attacking both cancer and healthy cells.

Australian scientists kill cancer cells with trojan horse | Global Industries | Health & Drugs | Reuters

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On the subject of killing cancer, Sky News reported the other week that doctors in the UK are using light or sound (I can't remember, probably sound though) to kill prostate cancer cells, without any actual operation involved. This dramatically dropped failure rates, and decreased the risk of impotency; prostate cancer is difficult to remove by surgery due to the number of fibres and delicate tubes (the ones that connect to your balls) surounding the prostate. With this new method, the sound or light (can't remember) heats up the area it is concentrated at (in this case the prostate cancer cells) heats up to a very high temperature (I think they said 100C, but again I have forgotten), and dies.

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Found a link:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...=searchresults

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that's great news

but about the heating part....doesn't the heat effects the skin/organs too? or maybe its some sort of micro beam thing that only target a very small area enough to kill the cancer?

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It's a very small area which gets concentrated upon at a time, so as not to affect other parts, but can take a while. Again the major advantage being there isn't surgery involved, and impotency risks drop.