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Thursday 29 Oct 2015 - 11:01 Makkah mean time-16-1-1437
 Orlando, (IINA) - Researchers have found that a radiotherapeutic bandage could be used to treat cancerous skin tumors that are difficult or impossible to completely remove with surgery, UPI reported.
In most cases, surgery to remove non-melanoma skin cancers is the best option for treatment, and radiation therapy is also used for inoperable or reoccurring lesions.
Dr. Anthony Di Pasqua, assistant professor at the University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy, said: "Radiation has a tendency to be systemic, yet aggressive treatment for patients", adding that using something like a bandage would allow doctors to more carefully apply radiation therapy.
Researchers created electrospun polymer nanofibrous mats, or bandages, using holmium-165 nanoparticles and the synthetic polymer plyacrylonitrile. After grafting skin cancer tumors onto mice, researchers tested the bandages. The mice were treated with the bandages for one hour a day, and tumor sizes were measured before and after treatment.
Fifteen days after the treatment, three of the 10 mice treated with bandages had complete tumor elimination, while tumors of the remaining seven were significantly smaller in comparison with the control group.
Researchers plan to test the bandages in larger animals, as well as work to optimize the dose of radiation needed for the bandages to be effective.
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