Japanese Scientists Unveil New Mesothelioma Treatment Strategy, According to Surviving Mesothelioma
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) October 19, 2016 -- Scientists at Tokushima University have tested a method they say may improve mesothelioma survival by helping chemotherapy work better. Surviving Mesothelioma has just posted an article on the new research. Click here to read it now.
Doctors at the Institute of Health Biosciences took research they did last year a step further by testing a systemic (whole body) method of “reprogramming” mesothelioma cells to be more susceptible to the damaging effects of pemetrexed (brand name Alimta), the top mesothelioma drug.
“The systemic, in addition to local, delivery of tumor targeted anti-TS RNAi system we propose in this study might be an effective option to extend the clinical utility of pemetrexed in treating malignant mesothelioma,” writes Dr. Amr Abu Lila, lead author of the new study.
The research, published online by Molecular Pharmaceutics, used mouse models to demonstrate proof of concept. The next step will be to test the RNA interference (RNAi) method in human mesothelioma patients.
“Because nearly every person diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma will undergo treatment with pemetrexed at some point, we are always interested in any method that claims to be able to improve the effectiveness of this treatment,” says Alex Strauss, Managing Editor for Surviving Mesothelioma.
To learn more about RNAi and its potential impact on mesothelioma chemotherapy, see New Treatment Strategy Could Make Mesothelioma More Responsive to Chemotherapy, now available on the Surviving Mesothelioma website.
Abu Lila, AS, et al, “Systemically administered RNAi molecule sensitizes malignant pleural mesothelioma cells to pemetrexed therapy,” October 14, 2016, Epub ahead of print, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b00728
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