Tuesday 15 December 2009

Radioactive 'missile' treatment ' Smart' Therapy

Sometime in the paper you read something that can changesome one life for ever and give hope to a family and see the something they really did not think they would.
In today Evening Standerd their are two reported published that can give real hope the trail number CHT25 to the layperson it being called the 'Smart' therapy, what does it do : The treatment which finds and destroys tumours using mini radioactive "missiles" could provide a lifeline for hundreds of patients the doctors found improvements in two thirds of people.
The main point to the report by : University College London and the Royal Free Hospital aslo reveal the drug is of extra benefit to "no hope" patients who no longer respond to treatments such as chemotherapy.
The trail published in the journal clinical Cancer Research shows the radioactivity remains at the tumour site for at leat four days to give maximum benefit.The first study involved 15 patients but scientists now plan a more extensive trails.

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