If you or a loved one has prostate cancer, there\u2019s some good\nnews on the horizon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center\nat Houston (UTHealth) have been using gold nanoparticles to target prostate\ncancer cells with minimal side effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Targeting prostate\ncancer with gold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The series of ongoing clinical trials has been using small\nlayers of silica glass formed in the shape of a sphere and coated with a thin\nlayer of glass. These tiny particles enter the prostate cancer cells as they\nrun across them, allowing researchers to stimulate them with lasers. Once\nstimulated, the nanoparticles vibrate and pulse with extreme temperatures,\nkilling the cancerous tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Best of all, there are very few side effects because the\nnearby healthy tissue is unharmed. By avoiding damage to the urinary sphincter\nand vital nerves in the region, men don\u2019t experience impotence and urinary\nincontinence, which are both common with other types of treatment for prostate\ncancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe side effects of current prostate cancer can be\nextremely traumatic,\u201d says Chair of the Division of Urology at McGovern Medical\nSchool at UTHealth Dr. Steven Canfield. \u201cThis new technology holds the\npotential to eliminate those life-altering effects, while still removing the\ncancer tissue and reducing hospital and recovery time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not convinced? Consider that the trial\u2019s first participant\neven rode his bike within a week of treatment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prostate cancer in\nthe United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is\nthe second most common cancer in men in the country (after skin cancer), and\nthe second leading cause of cancer-related death (after lung cancer) for\nAmerican men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, most men who develop prostate cancer don\u2019t die from\nit, largely due to early diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For men with a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the local\nstage (i.e., not spready beyond the prostate), the five-year relative survival\nrate is nearly 100%. Even when looking at all prostate cancer stages (including\nthose with cancer that has spread), the survival rate is 99%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Researchers are testing a new treatment for prostate cancer that uses gold nanoparticles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690],"tags":[791,749,731,719],"class_list":["post-13179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness","tag-cancer","tag-men","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}