{"id":76957,"date":"2018-03-16T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-therapeutic-gel-shows-promise-against-cancerous-tumors"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:42:42","slug":"new-therapeutic-gel-shows-promise-against-cancerous-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/new-therapeutic-gel-shows-promise-against-cancerous-tumors","title":{"rendered":"New therapeutic gel shows promise against cancerous tumors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination #chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs<\/a> and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner. The results in animal models so far suggest this approach could one day ramp up therapeutic benefits for patients bearing tumors or after removal of the primary tumors.<\/p>\n

The research, published in Science Translational Medicine<\/i>, focused on two specific types of melanoma and breast #cancer<\/a>, but this approach could work in other tissue types. Also, the research showed that this localized delivery of combination therapy significantly inhibited the recurrence of cancer after the primary tumor<\/a> was surgically removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve created a simple method to use #chemotherapy<\/a> while leveraging the biology of the #tumor<\/a> and our natural defense against foreign invaders to beat back tumor development<\/a> with limited side effects,\u201d said senior author Zhen Gu, PhD, associate professor in the joint UNC\/NCSU Biomedical Engineering Department. \u201cWe have a lot more work to do before human clinical trials, but we think this approach holds great promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and NC State have created an injectable gel-like scaffold that can hold combination #chemo-immunotherapeutic drugs and deliver them locally to tumors in a sequential manner. The results in animal models so far suggest this approach could one day ramp up therapeutic benefits for patients bearing tumors or after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}