News, Nanobubbles 'jackhammer' cancer cells. (chemo, cancerous)

[JD59]

HOUSTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Scientists at Rice University say they've used nanobubbles to target and explode individual diseased cancer cells.

Physicists Dmitri Lapotko and Jason Hafner created the nanobubbles by placing gold nanoparticles in cancer cells and then zapping them with short laser pulses, the university said in a release.

Nanobubbles 'jackhammer' cancer cells - UPI.com

[songinthewind7]

I wonder why it's only head and neck and not other areas.

[SD4020]

Originally Posted by songinthewind7

I wonder why it's only head and neck and not other areas.

I am guessing access. other cells mights be deeper into the body and access would not be effective or would be increasingly invasive. That is where chemo or radiation would be more effective. Again just a guess.

[songinthewind7]

Back a couple years or so, I saw something on tv where these people were sitting in water filled with leeches as the leeches were eating off the skin disease.
I wonder what would happen if somehow, leeches could be inserted into whatever part of the body is cancerous to eat the cells.
Sounds gross and unrealistic but it's something that just popped into my mind.