The Journal of Visual Experiments (JoVE) recently published research for treating and preventing breast cancer co-authored by Assistant Professor Amy Brock, while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
Amy Brock
The Journal of Visual Experiments (JoVE) recently published research for treating and preventing breast cancer co-authored by Assistant Professor Amy Brock, while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Other researchers are Silva Krause and Donald E. Ingber.
The research involves injection of therapeutics via the nipple. According to JoVE, the procedure, demonstrated on mice, offers direct access to the most common origin of breast cancer—the milk ducts—and could be used to offer cancer therapy that spares healthy regions of the body.
By delivering therapeutics directly to the area in need, side effects could be diminished and efficacy of medication could be improved because there would be less breakdown of drugs by the liver.
JoVE is the first and only Pubmed/MEDLINE-indexed, peer-reviewed journal devoted to publishing scientific research in video format.
Read the news release from JoVE and watch the visual experiment.
