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Earlier detection of cancer with nano liquid
Thanks to a new technique, cancer can be detected at an earlier stage, using nano liquid metastases, visible from only two millimeters in lymph nodes. Radboud medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands was the first patient treated with this technique.
The hospital owns all rights of the fluid and may treat twelve patients per month. For doctors from other hospitals, a training program will be drawn up.
The nano-fluid causes metastases to light up on a scan. As a result, doctors can treat cancer much easier targeted. This saves patients operations and gives them better chances of recovery, says researcher and radiologist Jelle Barents to the site of the hospital.
Eight millimeter
Without the liquid with MRI scans, just seventy percent of the metastases less than eight millimeters are detected. They will also be missed by forty percent of patients with minimally invasive surgery. As a result, people are walking around with more metastases, without them knowing it.
The nano-fluid consists of small iron particles which are injected by a doctor into a vein in the arm. After 24 hours, the patient returns for an MRI scan.
Other types of cancer
In the research patients with prostate cancer participated. The method also works with other types of cancer, such as breast cancer. For now the hospital still focuses on patients with recurrent prostate cancer or an increased risk of metastases in the lymph nodes.
(Feb 12, 04.52 PM)
Excuse me if the language is a bit odd. Blame it on Google Translate
Thanks to a new technique, cancer can be detected at an earlier stage, using nano liquid metastases, visible from only two millimeters in lymph nodes. Radboud medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands was the first patient treated with this technique.
The hospital owns all rights of the fluid and may treat twelve patients per month. For doctors from other hospitals, a training program will be drawn up.
The nano-fluid causes metastases to light up on a scan. As a result, doctors can treat cancer much easier targeted. This saves patients operations and gives them better chances of recovery, says researcher and radiologist Jelle Barents to the site of the hospital.
Eight millimeter
Without the liquid with MRI scans, just seventy percent of the metastases less than eight millimeters are detected. They will also be missed by forty percent of patients with minimally invasive surgery. As a result, people are walking around with more metastases, without them knowing it.
The nano-fluid consists of small iron particles which are injected by a doctor into a vein in the arm. After 24 hours, the patient returns for an MRI scan.
Other types of cancer
In the research patients with prostate cancer participated. The method also works with other types of cancer, such as breast cancer. For now the hospital still focuses on patients with recurrent prostate cancer or an increased risk of metastases in the lymph nodes.
(Feb 12, 04.52 PM)
Excuse me if the language is a bit odd. Blame it on Google Translate