Singapore to Test Silicon for Liver Cancer Treatment
Wed May 5, 2004 04:38 AM ET
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore medical researchers will begin clinical trials this month on a new technique that may give victims of liver cancer an extra lease on life by injecting silicon into tumors to treat infected cells.
Current drug and radiation treatments used against liver cancer usually kill healthy cells as well, preventing doctors from giving the required dosage in some cases, especially to patients too ill to withstand traditional heavy radiation.
"But we have now found the ideal vehicle to enable us to release the treatment at a controlled rate over a sustained period of time," said Dr Pierce Chow, the director of experimental surgery at Singapore General Hospital.
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