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Bio-adhesive nanoparticles (white) a er being taken up by skin cancer tumor cells during in vitro culture. (Image credit:
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February 3, 2021
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Could beating skin cancer in the future be as simple as a shot
in the arm? Perhaps, according to a team from Yale University. Scientists are
developing a skin cancer treatment applied by injecting nanoparticles directly inside
tumors. This method could potentially kill cancer cells via a two-pronged approach
and hopefully help countless skin cancer patients avoid surgery.
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there was a way to e ectively treat them with a simple procedure like an injection,”
says senior study author and Yale Medical School’s vice chair of dermatology Dr.
Michael Girardi in a university release. “That’s always been a holy grail in
dermatology — to find a simpler way to treat skin cancers such as basal cell
carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.”
“When you inject our nanoparticles into a tumor, it turns out that they’re retained
within that tumor very well,” explains study co-author Mark Saltzman, the Goizueta
Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental
Engineering, and professor of physiology. “They accumulate and bind to the tumor
matrix, so one single injection lasts for a very long time — the particles stay there
and slowly release the compounds. You need that to get rid of the lesion.”
“I call the phenomenon ‘kill and thrill,'” Girardi adds. “You don’t want to just kill the
cells and leave them there, you want to stimulate the immune system to clean up the
mess and also react against cells that might not have been killed directly. So it’s a
two-pronged attack on the cancer.”
The hope is that, once perfected, this treatment will reduce the need for skin cancer-
related surgeries considerably. This would help out patients across a number of
areas. Less surgeries means fewer potential surgical complications or wound
infections. Moreover, many patients aren’t suitable candidates for surgery in the first
place due to other health considerations.
Additionally, this injection strategy would allow patients to target and treat multiple
tumors during a single doctor visit.
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Notably, the nanoparticle delivery system allows for the use of particularly strong
chemotherapy drugs without the risk of adverse side-e ects. Since the
nanoparticles, and by extension the chemotherapy drugs, stay attached to tumor
cells, there’s a much lower risk of the usual side-e ects linked to chemotherapy such
as fatigue or hair loss.
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