Nanotechnology Kills Cancer Cells

This is incredibly encouraging. I have always been a fan of nanotech and I am glad that there is some serious research going on with it that will truly influence life. I am a big advocate of Fighting Cancer. If I was doing the Blogathon (the only reason I'm not is because I don't think I have enough time to drum up sponsors... next year though for certain), I would probably be giving my money to the American Cancer Institute or some other cancer related society.

As some may or may not know, my Mother (in law) died in December of cancer. One of the main reasons she passed away is that she couldn't handle the treatments. They made her too weak to fight. It got to the point where we had to choose: let the treatments kill her, or let the cancer.

My Mother (mine, not the husband's) had to have a full hysterectomy because they detected a few cancerous cells and she simply didn't want to risk it. (Her mother, my nana, died of cancer.) Had this nanotech been available, she wouldn't have had to have the hysterectomy and take all the truly horrible medicines. You know those horrible pain killers that the FDA is all over now? Well, those. The Steroids she had to take were horrible for her. They made her very sick and I think maybe a touch crazy. (Or, maybe she was always crazy and its just gotten worse lately.)

I love Nanotech. I think Nanotech, Nuclear Medicine, and Stem Cells are the wave of the future in biology and medicine. I am always delighted to see practical uses put forward. This one gets a big thumbs up if it can be perfected.

Posted by Utopia at August 2, 2005 10:11 AM

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