Tag: Tumor Treatment

  • Scientists Turned A Probiotic Into A Tiny Chemotherapy Factory

    Scientists Turned A Probiotic Into A Tiny Chemotherapy Factory

    A bacterium commonly used as a probiotic has been genetically redesigned to manufacture chemotherapy inside tumors instead of sending the drug throughout the body. In experiments involving mice with colorectal cancer, the engineered bacteria helped three of seven treated tumors completely regress, while also triggering an immune response that affected cancer beyond the original treatment…

  • Doctors Are Destroying Tumors Inside MRI Scanners Without Making a Single Incision

    Doctors Are Destroying Tumors Inside MRI Scanners Without Making a Single Incision

    Australia has quietly achieved something that sounds like it belongs in the future of medicine. At a hospital in Sydney, doctors are now destroying certain cancer tumors by freezing them from the inside while watching the entire procedure unfold through an MRI scanner. There are no large surgical cuts, no operating-room incisions, and in some…