Magnetic seeds can be steered into cancer tissue to kill it with heat

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Magnetic seeds can be steered into cancer tissue to kill it with heat

One promising possibility for next-gen cancer treatments involves infiltrating tumors with specially-designed particles and heating them up to destroy the cancerous tissue, and new research from the University of College London (UCL) takes this technology into new terrain. The team’s solutions leverages MRI scanning to steer magnetic seeds to the site with a high level of precision, offering new hopes of advanced treatments for hard-to-reach cancers.

The technique at the heart of this research is known as magnetic hyperthermia, and it is a technology that has shown some exciting potential in recent years.

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