Cancer nanobombs

Cancer is a serious problem and is hard to cure. Doctors usually use chemotherapy to get rid of some tumors that might spread throughout the body. Even if chemotherapy was to get rid of the tumors in the body there still would be major side effects.

Balaji Panchapakesan at the University of Delaware figured out a less risky way to get rid of tumors. He came up with the idea of Cancer Nanobombs. Cancer Nanobombs are tiny carbonNanotubes filled with water, which are injected into the area with the tumor. Then a laser light is zapped into the area causing the water inside the Nanotube to boil thus causing the Nanobombs to explode and kill any nearby cells.

Sure the Nanobombs will kill other cells along with the tumor cell but its better than the side effects of chemo.

sited: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16002-invention-cancer-nanobomb.html

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