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Quest for New Cancer Treatment crosses Milestone: Therapy excels in pilot clinical trials

Naomi Halas (left) and Jennifer West at Houston’s 2012 Art Car Parade. Rice’s parade entry honored the engineering researchers for their invention of AuroLase Therapy, a cancer treatment that uses gold to destroy cancer without damaging healthy tissue. (Photo by Mike Williams/Rice University)

A cancer therapy invented at Rice University has crossed a milestone in clinical trials, a major development in a decades long quest to develop a treatment that destroys tumors without the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, invasive surgery and radiation.

13 of the first 15 prostate cancer patients treated in a clinical trial of the nanoparticle-based, focal therapy showed no detectable signs of cancer a year after treatment, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings...

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