Sickle cells show potential to attack aggressive cancer tumors

NCI Cancer Center News

By harnessing the very qualities that make sickle cell disease a lethal blood disorder, a research team led by Duke Medicine (home to the Duke Cancer Institute) and Jenomic, a private cancer research company in Carmel, Calif., has developed a way to deploy the misshapen red blood cells to fight cancer tumors. Reporting in the Jan. 9, 2013, edition of the on-line journal, PLOS ONE, the researchers describe a process of exploiting sickle-shaped red blood cells to selectively target oxygen deprived cancer tumors in mice and block the blood vessels that surround them.

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