New technique offers hope for cancer treatment
Friday 18th December 2009
A technique involving radioactive isotopes may provide cancer sufferers with a new way of battling the disease.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the "radioactive bullet" therapy could offer new hope in Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment.
In an experiment conducted at Cancer Research UK's Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre at University College London, it was found that two-thirds of patients responded to the programme.
Called CHT25, the therapy uses an antibody that targets tumour-like cells linked to a radioactive particle.
Professor Richard Begent, one of those involved in the research, said initial results were "very encouraging".
He added: "There is an urgent need for new treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma and T-cell lymphoma because a number of patients develop drug resistance to the therapy options already out there."
The scientist is head of the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, which is one of a network of similar facilities created by Cancer Research UK and the Departments of Health in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Written by Alex Franklin Stortford
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