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Cork cancer trials: Hope for sufferers Win NEW groundbreaking research being conducted in Cork will see significant advances in the treatment of cancer in the coming months.
Cork TV star Peter Xposé-d!
A BALLINCOLLIG man who interviewed celebrities for a living in LA has returned home to join TV3’s Xposé team. And the first thing that Peter O’Riordan is looking forward to
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is a take-away from KC’s in Douglas. ● Peter is pictured with Xposé presenters Karen Koster, Aisling O’Loughlin, Glenda Gilson and Lisa Cannon. For more turn to Page 13.
Clinical and pre-clinical trials at Cork Cancer Research Centre, at UCC — where the team works to give hope to those without hope — are showing promising results in cases of oesophageal, lung, bowel cancer and melonoma. A device invented by the team in Cork has already been successfully trialled on over 400 melanoma patients in Cork and is now being used on bowel cancer patients in the Mercy University Hospital and St Vincent’s in Dublin. Pending approval, there are plans to use it on lung cancer patients in CUH early next year. Dr Declan Soden, General Manager of CCRC, leads the team that invented this device which, when inserted, allows treatment of tumours through a 15-minute outpatient procedure. “The principle is that you give the tumour a small zap of electricity
Team invents device that is inserted to zap tumours By AUDREY ELLARD WALSH
which leaves it porous for a few hours. “This allows us to deliver drugs directly into the tumour which absorbs about 1000 times more than traditional chemotherapy... meaning you only need to use about 1% of the amount.” Dr Sharon McKenna, Principal Investigator on the Autophagy Team, reveals promising headway into the treatment of oesophageal cancer through gene therapy and drug combining. “We’ve taken a drug combination into pre-clinical trials and it has ● Continued on Page 2.
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