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Targeting strategy may open door to better cancer drug delivery

6/11/18

While bioengineers have long used chemical properties of a cell to deliver treatment drugs, a team of Penn State researchers suggest they can use the mechanical properties of diseased cells, such as metastatic cancer cells, to help improve delivery of drug treatments to the targeted cells. The mechanotargeting may one day lead to improved cancer treatments.

Jairam Vanamala

Grape-based compounds kill colon cancer stem cells in mice

6/19/17

A compound made from grape skins and grape seeds killed colon cancer stem cells in mice, according to researchers. The study, along with previous studies on the low incidence of colon cancer in populations that tend to eat plants, may also offer clues to the role that foods play in suppressing and treating cancer.

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Tiny filter screens out cancer cells

10/29/13

For cancer patients, the most dreaded piece of news is that the disease has spread. "Ninety percent of patients die because of metastasic tumors, not the primary tumor," says Siyang Zheng, assistant professor of bioengineering at Penn State. Now, work by an interdisciplinary team led by Zheng may give patients a better chance of survival after their tumors have metastasized. Zheng's team is developing a device that may help monitor circulating tumor cells, or CTCs.

brain and spinal column

Technique filters cancer where chemo can't reach

7/30/13

A cancer therapy that removes malignant cells from a patient's cerebrospinal fluid may soon be available to prevent metastases and decrease complications of cancers involving the brain, according to Penn State medical researchers.