{"id":6270,"date":"2016-03-14T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/first-injectable-nanoparticle-generator-could-radically-transform-metastatic-breast-cancer-treatment\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:01:42","slug":"first-injectable-nanoparticle-generator-could-radically-transform-metastatic-breast-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/first-injectable-nanoparticle-generator-could-radically-transform-metastatic-breast-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"First injectable nanoparticle generator could radically transform metastatic breast cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of investigators from Houston Methodist Research Institute may have transformed the treatment of metastatic triple negative breast cancer by creating the first drug to successfully eliminate lung metastases in mice. This landmark study appears today in Nature Biotechnology (early online edition).<\/p>\n

The majority of cancer deaths are due to metastases to the lung and liver, yet there is no cure. Existing cancer drugs provide limited benefit due to their inability to overcome biological barriers in the body and reach the cancer cells in sufficient concentrations. Houston Methodist nanotechnology and cancer researchers have solved this problem by developing a drug that generates nanoparticles inside the lung metastases in mice.<\/p>\n