Research in new methods for the treatment of cancer has
reached an advanced stage by Nigerian scholars. The new method would be
different from the present means of treatment of cancer and related
diseases through chemotherapy.
The President of the
African University of Science and Technology (AUST ), Abuja, Professor
Wole Soboyejo, disclosed this yesterday at the opening ceremony of a
five-day workshop on Nanomedicine and Bio-Micro-Electrical Systems
(BIOMEMS) organised by the Federal University of Technology, Minna in
collaboration with AUST.
According to him, the new method of
treatment would be more effective than chemotherapy as the medicine is
selective because when administered it will have direct effect on the
region of the disease.
He explained that the present form of
treatment was different because it must go through all the blood vessels
before attacking the area of the disease.
He listed the
advantages of the new treatment to include less or no side effects on
human body unlike chemotherapy that has side effect and is less cost
effective because patients need to take large number of dosages of the
medicine before it could go round the body to have impact on the
affected areas.
Soboyejo said the new method had started eight
years ago and had proven to be effective after testing it on animals
adding that it would soon be tested on human beings.
He however
said that to administer the new treatment , it must be through injection
while pointing out that the workshop was aimed at bringing young
scholars and scientists on board for their contribution for the final
outcome.
Culled from http://news.naij.com/9707.html
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