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Updated Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:51 pm TWN, The China Post news staff

New nano-drug brings hope to cancer patients

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Institute of Nuclear Energy Research under the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council is developing a new drug which uses nanotargeted therapy to cure colorectal cancer.

The drug, which targets cancer cells with radioactive isotopes, is applied via IV injection to the blood veins undergoing angiogenesis where the tumor cells reside. The drug can effectively cut off nutrition routes for the problem cells as well as radiates beta rays to kill the cells.

The potential therapeutic drug, which treats late-stage colorectal cancer, has completed trials on animals and phase 1 clinical trials on humans are expected to begin in Taiwan in 2011.

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