Researchers have been developing a new system to deliver cancer fighting drugs without damaging the healthy cells in the surrounding area. The new drug delivery system addresses the following, “Certain cancerous cells produce between 10 to 100 times more folate receptors than healthy cells. These receptors bind folic acid, which is required by cancer cells to grow and divide rapidly. As a result, the researchers used folic acid as the bait for targeting cancer cells”.

This type of advance in chemotherapy is very exciting. “The development is expected to be especially efficient against ovarian, kidney and uterine cancer, which are characterized by high production of folic acid receptors. In the future, this novel chemotherapeutic delivery system will be able to simultaneously deliver several anti-cancer drugs, whose tailor-made synergistic combination would lead to an optimal eradication of malignant cells of a specific cancer type, in individual cancer patients”. – Newswise
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Chemotherapy drugs can damage healthy cells and often cause side effects for patients during treatment. What side effects have you experienced during treatment, and how did you manage them?