UTSA treatment encourages cancer cells to 'commit suicide'

A scientist has come up with a non-invasive treatment for hard-to-reach cancer cells that effectively makes tumours "commit suicide". Matthew Gdovin, an associate professor in the UTSA Department of Biology, injects chemical compound nitrobenzaldehyde into the tumour and then aims a beam of light at it, with the ensuing chemical reaction resulting in 95% of the tumour dying. Gdovin's method not only works on triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease, it is also more precise than chemotherapy, and has no side-effects. Gdovin is not working on a nanoparticle that will target metastasized cancer cells.

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