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Sound waves enhance cancer drug delivery, minimise toxicity

ANI Mar 20, 2018

A new study led by a Genomics Research Institute has found that Acoustic Cluster Therapy which involves the use of pulsed sound waves, could target cancer cells better by increasing the delivery and effectiveness if chemotherapy drugs.


Turns out, sound waves from ultrasound enhance drug delivery and minimise toxicity. According to the study led by The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), enhancing cancer drug delivery and minimising its toxicity are some of the advantages of ultrasounds. For decades now, ultrasound has been used to image organs such as the heart and kidneys, check blood flow, monitor the development of fetuses, reduce pain and even break up kidney stones.

Now, a Norwegian biotech company called Phoenix Solutions AS is working with the TGen, a Phoenix, Arizona-based biomedical research facility, to test the use of these pulsed sound waves to direct and focus cancer drug therapies. In laboratory tests, TGen will help analyze the effectiveness of a technology called Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT), a unique approach to target cancer cells by concentrating the delivery of chemotherapies, making them more effective and potentially reducing their toxicity.

Humanscan Co. Ltd., a South Korean manufacture of ultrasound diagnostic imaging, is developing clinically applicable hardware optimized for ACT, which TGen will then validate. Phoenix Solutions is using funding from Innovation Norway to conduct this research in advance of pancreatic cancer clinical trials planned later this year. "We are very pleased to receive this grant, which will enable us to develop and validate an optimal ultrasound platform for clinical use of ACT. In their respective fields, Humanscan and TGen both represent the cutting edge of science, and we are confident this will contribute to the clinical success of our program," said Dr. Per Sontum, CEO of Phoenix Solutions.

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