What is Cancer?
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Treatments For Cancer Today
- Most common treatments: Chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone treatments
- Our drug is a chemotherapy drug.
- Chemotherapy induces apoptosis in rapidly proliferating populations which includes tumors but also other cells such as hair cells.
- Side effects include
- Fatigue
- Hair loss
- Easy bruising and bleeding
- Infection
- Existing treatments require higher dosages because they suffer from hydrolysis.
DNA Topoisomerase
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The 9-Aminoacridine and DNA Intercalates
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Apoptosis
Apoptosis covers two unique cell functions (Kerr, 1994). It serves to complete an entirely regular task in normal tissue of deleting unneeded cells; however it is also induced by CTL cells when it is believed that a cells survival will be harmful to the remainder of the body. It is when this does not function as expected that we see cancer cells persist. Existing chemotherapy treatments induce apoptosis in cell population experiencing quick proliferation which is effective in attacking tumor tissue, but other rapid proliferation tissues such as hair are also affected which is the reason for the side effects patients experience.
Research So Far
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The Bromine Substituent
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