Injection of the drug CBLB502 has the potential to protect a cancer patient’s healthy cells during radiation treatment.
At least in mice and monkeys’ study, it worked that way!
Mice and monkeys exposed to normally-lethal doses of radiation treatment have lived longer after being injected with the drug CBLB502.
Radiotherapy is used to kill cancer-infected cells through radiation. However, the treatment also kills healthy cells surrounding the cancer-affected area through a biological suicide mechanism, or apoptosis.
The biological suicide is a reaction activated by the body in order to stop the multiplication of damaged DNA and cells. Radiotherapists must balance targeting too much radiation …read more