Radioactive Bacteria Targets Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Novel Approach Using Listeria Bacteria Shows Promise Against
A Deadly Disease
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University have developed a therapy for pancreatic cancer that uses
Listeria bacteria to selectively infect tumor cells and deliver radioisotopes
into them. The experimental treatment dramatically decreased the number of
metastases (cancers that have spread to other parts of the body) in a mouse
model of highly aggressive pancreatic cancer without harming healthy tissue.
The study was published today in the online edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.