During his rotations as a medical student at McGill University, Roy Khalaf met a patient whose metastatic melanoma had spread to his brain and other areas of his body. Coming to terms with his unfortunate fate, the patient – a father of three children under five – regretted he hadn’t been able to detect the cancer earlier, when treatment might have been more effective.
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Method Enables Lab-Grown T Cells To Live Longer and Better Destroy Cancer Cells
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have developed a new way to grow T cells in the lab that enables them to live longer and better destroy cancer cells in a mouse model of melanoma compared to those grown in traditional growth media.
Anti-melanoma activity found in green-produced nanosilver-chlorhexidine complex
Melanoma is a fast-progressing skin cancer characterized by a high mortality rate after metastasis. Local chemotherapy could be considered a therapeutic approach only in stage 0 of progression (in situ melanoma) and in the postoperative phase after surgical removal of suspected skin lesions. For this purpose, drugs such as Imiquimod, 5-Fluorouracil, Dacarbazine, and Doxorubicin have been tested and shown positive effects. Recently, metal nanoparticles as separate therapeutic units or drug carriers have also fallen into the research focus.
Green tea-derived nanosilver complex displays anti-melanoma activity
Melanoma is a fast-progressing skin cancer characterized by a high mortality rate after metastasis. Local chemotherapy could be considered a therapeutic approach only in stage 0 of progression (in situ melanoma) and in the postoperative phase after surgical removal of suspected skin lesions. For this purpose, drugs such as Imiquimod, 5-Fluorouracil, Dacarbazine, and Doxorubicin have been tested and shown positive effects. Recently, metal nanoparticles as separate therapeutic units or drug carriers have also fallen into the research focus.