Breakthrough kill metastatic cancer cells

Scientists have discovered a breakthrough method that can kill cancer cells in blood vessels before they infect other parts of the body.

Surgery and radiotherapy can treat the formation of newly formed tumors, but it is difficult to detect metastatic cancer cells that make treatment of metastatic tumors very difficult. Scientists at Cornell University (USA) believe that a newly discovered method can prevent cancer cells from infecting other parts of the body.

E-selectin and TRAIL proteins can be used to treat cancer.(Photo: Daily Mail)

Scientists use proteins called E-selectin and TRAIL - capable of destroying cancer cells - to put them in white blood cells. They will then move through the bloodstream and destroy cancer cells when detected.

'About 90% of cancer deaths are related to metastasis, but we have found a new way to deploy an "army" of white blood cells to kill cancer cells in the veins. blood. This method will disrupt the cycle of cancer cells , 'said Dr. Michael King, head of the study.

Dr Michael King and his colleagues tested injecting E-selectin and TRAIL proteins into blood samples in humans and mice. When a cancer cell is exposed to TRAIL in the bloodstream, the cancer cell name will destroy itself.

When treating cancer cells with the E-selectin and TRAIL proteins in the laboratory, the researchers found that the rate of successful destruction of cancer cells was 60%. When proteins are introduced into blood vessels like human conditions, the success rate in killing cancer cells increases by nearly 100%.