Breast Cancer Identified Risks, Diagnostic, And Treatment Advancements Worth Knowing About

Use Of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is an emerging treatment option for an individual affected by aggressive breast cancer. Nanotechnology is the utilization of very small particles that are 1/100,000th the diameter of a human hair. These nanoparticles are used to allow for more targeted and precise delivery of effective chemotherapy medications that already exist in breast cancer treatment. The nanoparticles are able to bind to specific proteins present only on the cancer cells and able to ignore other healthy cells entirely. Chemotherapy drugs can be delivered to only act on such cancer cells the nanoparticles have identified. Some of these chemotherapy drugs can be programmed not to have any effect until they have reached the target cells and are activated by a type of light or radiation manually administered by a physician. The mechanism that utilizes nanotechnology to deliver chemotherapy is the key to the considerable reduction and even the elimination of harsh side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy.

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