Say goodbye to difficulties to root out deep hidden malignant cells. Nanomedicine has now found its way to cancer surgery that enables the surgeons to find and kill cancer cells in real time that are deeply buried in the tissue. Researchers in the USA have come up with a nanomedicine platform to help the doctors to remove the part of the tumor that cannot be surgically removed. The motto: To find and kill the cancer cells specifically.
How does this novel nanomedicine platform work? Chemical dyes called silicon naphthalocyanine (SiNc) are densely attached to biodegradable PEG-PCL nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are administered intravenously or intraperitoneally. Nanoparticles reach every tissue, but they will only glow (fluorescence) when they reach cancer cells The glow site is detected with a near-infrared (NIR) imaging system and enables surgeons to precisely know which tissue needs to…
