Nanoparticle-Assisted Ultrasound for Cancer Therapy
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Herein, the concept and data for cancer treatment that combines ultrasound and nanoparticles is reported. Non-toxic gold and magnetic nanoparticles were used to enhance the ultrasound destruction of cancer cells in vitro. Separate monolayers of normal and cancer cells were treated by focused ultrasound with the result of more pronounced damage of cancer cells when biocompatible gold and magnetic nanoparticles were added in the culture media. The data obtained on different cell lines, indicate that nanoparticleassisted ultrasound therapy can provide an effective new tool for cancer treatment and potentially can be combined with conventional methods of cancer diagnosis and therapy to further increase the overall cancer cure rate.
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