Deprecated: Required parameter $field follows optional parameter $value in /customers/6/e/3/senatormedical.se/httpd.www/wp-content/plugins/stm-gdpr-compliance/includes/plugins/GravityForms.php on line 142 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/6/e/3/senatormedical.se/httpd.www/wp-content/plugins/stm-gdpr-compliance/includes/plugins/GravityForms.php:142) in /customers/6/e/3/senatormedical.se/httpd.www/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php on line 8 UCC – Senator Medical AB https://www.senatormedical.se Strategic partner in Healthcare business Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:44:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.senatormedical.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-Senator-Logo.jpg UCC – Senator Medical AB https://www.senatormedical.se 32 32 60550935 Promising results of Electrochemotherapy as a potential treatment for pancreatic cancer https://www.senatormedical.se/electrochemotherapy-for-pancreatic-cancer/ https://www.senatormedical.se/electrochemotherapy-for-pancreatic-cancer/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2019 09:44:14 +0000 https://www.senatormedical.se/?p=2004 Treatment of pancreatic cancer might be enhanced by zapping tumours with electricity alongside drug treatments (Bleomycin or Cisplatin)

Electrochemotherapy delivers short, intense pulses of electricity to a tumour, which temporarily increase how porous cancer cells are, allowing more drugs to flood inside.

The technique is currently used to treat skin cancers and some breast cancers, which can easily be reached by the electrodes needed to deliver the pulses of electricity.

Researchers at CancerResearch@UCC have found that a technique known as electrochemotherapy causes pancreatic cancer cells to become more sensitive to three widely used anti-cancer drugs.

With PCRF funding, Dr Patrick Forde – who led the research – is investigating whether it can be used for tumours in the pancreas, deep inside the body.

The results also revealed that the cells died in a specific way that may have implications for how the immune system responds to the cancer cells after the drug treatment.

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