Cancer testing robot...

RhondaH · 02-04-2007, 08:18 AM

http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews...ection=DISEASE

Rhonda

heblaj01 · 02-04-2007, 03:59 PM

This looks like an improvement or a specialized version of the pill size video camera/transmitter which became available a few years ago to gastroenterologists for multiple "live" pictures of the GI track to enable them to detect even asymptomatic lesions, polyps,ulcers,tumors...
This is how it was possible to confirm that contrary to claims by the supplier of celebrex (not to speak of Vioxx now withdrawn) this drug does cause GI damage in 10 to 20% of users even if they are not aware of it.

RobinP · 02-20-2007, 08:03 AM

In war, an ideal solution would be to have a smart device that could both detect, and then eradicate an enemy. The same is true with cancer. I would assume the robotics that the article is referring to, is the use of nanotechnology which may not be a hard 'pill' to swallow. Tiny nano-pill devices that can detect unique cancer cells and then deliver a drug molecule, or even a heat pulsating shock wave to eradicate the cancer cell certainly is an objective that researchers are now working on with the promise of that technology available in 10 to fifteen years from now.