Society of Interventional Radiology

Going for Gold With a Novel Interventional Radiology Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 30th, 2010

Pancreatic cancer--known as the most fatal cancer with no known effective treatment--requires a radical new therapy. A promising approach may come in the form of tiny gold nanoparticles--loaded with a therapeutic agent to kill cancer--in a novel procedure called "nanoembolization," said researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.

"As current treatments for pancreatic cancer offer minimal benefit, entirely new approaches are needed. We've developed a radically different approach that might be able to overcome some of the obstacles that have hampered previous therapies for pancreatic cancer," said Reed A. Omary,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-03-30)

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