A radioactive injectable chip has been developed to "destroy malignant cells and prolong the lives" of patients. Pretty cool...
The chip is called BrachySil.
The spokeswoman says clinical trials on eight patients at the government-run Singapore General Hospital have shown its is capable of killing malignant cells within a 1.5 centimetre radius.
She says five of eight patients involved in the trials have seen their tumours shrink by between 11 and 60 per cent.
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Dr Anthony Goh, a nuclear medicine consultant and the trial's principal investigator, told the newspaper the chips proved extremely safe.
He says they are able to "lock" in place, sparing non-malignant cells from radiation.
There are now plans for a six-month trial involving 30-40 patients from Asia and New Zealand next year.
If successful, BrachySil could be on the market by 2007 and developed to treat other inoperable solid cancers.
[via bTang reBlog]
