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PALLATIVE WOUND CARE JOURNAL ARTICLE
Catherine Halton of Imaging Equipment Ltd has written an article in the Pallative Wound Care Journal entitled ‘Use of Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Skin Cancer’. This article was written to accompany a presentation given to group of professionals at a Wound UK Pallative Wound Care Conference in Manchester, UK.
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£80,000 TARGET FOR NEW SKIN CANCER TREATMENT AT BARTS AND LONDON
Barts and The London Charity is hoping to raise nearly £80,000 from donations, to find a cliniporator that could revolutionise the treatment of skin cancer. Click here for the full story
BARTS AND THE LONDON SKIN CENTRE OFFER ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY
The management of skin cancer is an increasing part of the work at Barts and The London Skin Centre. Patients are treated with all forms of skin cancer, including melanoma and the lower risk non-melanoma skin cancers called squamous cell cancer and basal cell cancer.
The treatments they offer are surgery, chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, sentinel node biopsy, immunotherapy/biological therapies and now ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY.
Click here for more details of skin cancer treatments at Barts and the London Skin Centre.
RESEARCHERS FINE TUNE ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY
Cancer researchers have been developing a form of chemotherapy that drastically reduces its unpleasant side-effects. Electrochemotherapy uses an electric charge to target the cancer cells more accurately, so much less of the highly toxic drugs are needed.
Click here to see an informative video posted on the Euronews.net web site.
REPORT ON METASTASIS CANCER
Clearly in order to treat and cure cancer, and especially in an effort to prevent metastasis of cancer experts need to understand what happens or what allows metastatic disease to occur. Scientists have discovered the two key processes that allow cancer cells to change the way they move, so that they can successfully spread to other areas of the body (reported in journal: Cell). The research found that there is a constant competition between two proteins called Rac and Rho and that process seems to allow cancer cells to change shape and move easily through the body to other locations. They specifically looked at aggressive metastatic skin cancer cells and saw that the cells were able to alternate between round shape and stretchy elongated shape which was the state enabling them to move easily.
PUBLISHED PAPER – EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY:
“The Treatment of Cutaneous and Sub Cutaneous Lesions with Electrochemotherapy with Bleomycin”
Click here to read this paper.
If you have any questions about the article please contact Catherine on catherine@imagingequipment.co.uk or call her on 07771-817-233.
