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Well, what if you had a detector that was so small that it could circulate in your body, find the tumor all by itself and send a signal to the outside world?
Surrounding the blood vessel is a tumor.
We're going to inject nanoparticles into the blood vessel and watch how they travel from the bloodstream into the tumor.
Now it turns out that the blood vessels of many tumors are leaky, and so nanoparticles can leak out from the bloodstream into the tumor.
We designed it to listen for tumor invasion: the orchestra of chemical signals that tumors need to make to spread.
For a tumor to break out of the tissue that it's born in, it has to make chemicals called enzymes to chew through the scaffolding of tissues.
OK, so if I make a 100-nanometer cancer detector, I inject it in the bloodstream, it can leak into the tumor where it's activated by tumor enzymes to release a small signal that is small enough to be filtered out of the kidney and put into the urine, I have a signal in the outside world that I can detect.
And the ability of the tumor to grow into those organs is the reason why pancreatic cancer is one of the most painful tumor types.
Why should we care about the blood vessel of a tumor?
The drug is injected in the vein and it navigates throughout the body until it reaches the tumor site.
They will reach healthy organs, resulting in high toxic effect for the patients overall, but very little will go to the tumor.
They are flexible enough that they can be folded to fit into the catheter, so the doctor can implant it directly on top of the tumor with minimally invasive surgery.
But they are solid enough that once they are positioned on top of the tumor, they will act as a cage.
They will actually physically prevent the tumor from entering other organs, controlling the metastasis.
She and I were in the early stages of planning, as we had intended to go together, when she fell victim to a brain tumor.
We've found that tumor growth in vitro was inhibited 70 percent in the group that made these changes, whereas only nine percent in the comparison group.
Can we actually pinpoint the molecular changes in a tumor so that we can actually go after it in a smart way and deliver drugs that might wipe out exactly the cells that we want to?
And the PET scans here are showing you very clearly where are these hot spots, where is the tumor.
And you guys are now at an operating room, and there's a patient in front of you, and your task is to make sure that the tumor is out.
And all you know about this patient is that there's a tumor about the size of a golf ball or so in the right frontal lobe of this person's brain.
And so you're going in with your thumb, and you start to press a little bit on the brain, because tumors tend to be a little harder, stiffer, and so you go in and go a little bit like this and say, "It seems like the tumor is right there."
Then you take out your knife and start cutting the tumor piece by piece by piece.
And as you're taking the tumor out, then you're getting to a stage where you think, "Alright, I'm done.
Because now you need to decide, should I stop here and let this patient go, risking that there might be some leftover cancer cells behind that I just couldn't see, or should I take away some extra margins, typically about an inch or so around the tumor just to be sure that I removed everything?
And once we see that, maybe we can guide brain cancer surgeons towards taking only the tumor and leaving the healthy brain alone.
What you're looking at here is an image of a mouse's brain, and we've implanted into this mouse's brain a small little tumor.
And so this tumor is now growing in this mouse's brain, and then we've taken a doctor and asked the doctor to please operate on the mouse as if that was a patient, and take out piece by piece out of the tumor.
The nice thing is that these gold particles actually made it all the way to the tumor, and then they shine out and tell us, "Hey, we're here.
Here's the tumor."
So now we can see the tumor, but we're not showing this to the doctor yet.
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