Electric Shock of Tumors can Help Cancer Treatment

A new treatment uses electric shock to tumors to soften them so they can absorb chemotherapy for better treatment:

"A device that uses electricity to ‘soften up’ tumours before chemotherapy so they soak up the drugs like a sponge could transform cancer treatment.

The probe makes cancer cells porous so more of the toxic drugs attack the tumour rather than healthy cells.

Initial results suggest the treatment reduces the amount of medicine needed and may prevent side effects such as ­nausea, fatigue and hair loss.

The technique, called electro-chemotherapy, has been used to treat tumours that are easily accessible, such as skin cancer.

But a team from the University of Cork has developed a probe that can do the same for tumours deep inside the body.

Trials involve patients with bowel tumours considered inoperable.

But scientists behind the experimental device, called the EndoVe, are looking at adapting it for use in cancers in the oesophagus, lungs, pancreas and prostate.

Standard treatment for bowel cancer is surgery to remove the tumour and some of the bowel, then radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy on lingering cells."

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