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Originally Posted by Bagor
It appears to me that the difference is that she has proposed an innovative way of localised drug delivery, i.e mixing it with a polymer. Unless, there is evidence out there that this way of administration has been suggested before. Sure there are some drugs out there that are localised to specific types of tumours but that takes nothing away from her work given the complete difference in delivery method and the multifunctionality (treatment/imaging) of it. .
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Maybe I'm missing something... so what I know they had, as of 2009, was that you take a "nanoparticle" (aka. polymer, semiconductor, insert name here)... you wrap up a medicine... the nanoparticle will stick to the cancer cells due to a "marker" ... a EM wave of some sort (IR or otherwise?) will open up the "nanoparticle" and target the cancer cells. I think, though I could be wrong and missed something here, thats exactly what is suggested here...
Or (as photon implied?) is what she did special that it also does imaging? In which case, its not a new approach but merely integrating both drug delivery + imaging?