ELECTRONIC CANCER MEDICINE DELIVERY RESEARCH – ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed medical equipment aiding cancer drugs by administering electric shocks to patients. The ESOPE programme has created a 'Cliniporator' that uses short high voltage pulsed electric fields to make the membrane of tumour cells more porous, and more receptive to medicines. A European Commission briefing note said the Cliniporator was especially useful, because of its low cost (Euro 45,000), with electrodes costing Euro 700. This, it said, could "take some of the strain off public health ...
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