New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

dyauspitr

Anything that doesn’t genetically target cancer cells is just not the solution long term. Any progress is good though.

msie

They should give it to some people with fatal stages of cancer.

esafak

If it worked, how much might it roughly cost per treatment, at scale?

RomanPushkin

Experiencing cancer in my family I can tell for sure all of that buzz is quite exciting, but in the last 5 years there haven't been breakthroughs that would significantly improve outcomes for an average patient.

xbar

I lost my brother yesterday to cancer. I hope one day this can save lives. Go Beavs.

fnord77

Command-F "mice" yup. every time

quantummagic

Hope this makes it to people soon. Have a family friend who was diagnosed with cancer a few days ago. It was here in Canada, so they offered her assisted suicide, literally within 30 seconds after telling her she had cancer. She didn't even really process the diagnosis before they were offering to help her die. They didn't offer to try any experimental medicine.

MagicMoonlight

That sounds extremely promising

fghorow

What is the delivery mechanism for the MOF. The chemistry sounds promising (to this amateur, at least) but how does it get to and enter cancer cells?

v3ss0n

Will this be buried like rest if cancer cures?

stevenjgarner

Actual paper: https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/new-cancer-killing-materia...