Nanotechnology for Targeted Cancer Therapy

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A Biochemistry Presentation

Caraga State University Cabadbaran Campus January 2011LHS 4-LOVE

NANOTECHNOLOGY

FOR TARGETED

CANCER THERAPY


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Nanotechnology for Targeted Cancer Therapy January 2011

Talking about CANCER . . .

C A N C E R

Cancer cell has a reputation as a

deadly disease.

can affect people at all ages with

the risk for most types increasing

with age. It caused about 13% ofall

human deaths in 2007 .

Cancers are primarily an environmental

disease with 90-95% of cases due to

lifestyle and environmental factors and 5-

10% due to genetics.

Development of abnormal cells that divide

uncontrollably which have the ability to infiltrate

and destroy normal body tissue.


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Management of Cancer


Many management options for

cancer exist including:

Radiation

therapy

monoclonal

antibody therapy

chemotherapy

surgery,

immunotherapy,

Which are used depends upon the location and grade

of the tumor and the stage of the disease, as well as the

general state of a person's health. Experimental cancer

treatments are also under development.


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Management of Cancer



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Understanding Nanotechnology . . .


(nanotech for short)

nanometernanometer


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One nanometer (nm) is one billionth, or 109, of a meter.

the comparative size of a

nanometer to a meter is the

same as that of a marble to the

size of the earth.

Nanoscale devices are one hundred to ten

thousand times smaller than human cells.

They are similar in size to large biological

molecules ("biomolecules") such as enzymes

and receptors.


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Killing Affected Cells

inject an acid or an

enzyme into the cell

nanobots will be injected into

the patients bloodstream

scan for diseased cells

The particles will begin to

oscillate causing the cancer cells

to die either from active self

destruction or from swelling

until they literally burst.


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Benefits for Treatment and Clinical Outcomes


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Cancer Treatment

HAIR LOSS

NAUSEA,

NEUROPATHY,

FATIGUE, &

COMPROMISED IMMUNE FUNCTION.


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