Inhalable chemotherapy may help treat lung cancer | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Inhalable chemotherapy may help treat lung cancer | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By PTI |Melbourne |Published: April 15, 2019 5:27:37 pm

Inhalable chemotherapy may help treat lung cancer

The research is concerned with dry powder inhalation using chitosan nanoparticles loaded with drugs that can reach the lower respiratory tract and from there diffuse into the bloodstream.

Chitosan-based nanoparticle drug delivery could be the way of the future to deliver drugs for many different conditions besides lung cancer.

Scientists are testing a targeted chemotherapy for lung cancer patients, that can be inhaled instead of being injected or taken orally. According to pharmaceutical scientist Nazrul Islam, from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, lung cancer is one of the deadliest and most common cancers.