Local Researchers Create Patch That Can Fight Cancer

BOSTON (CBS) – Pat Padgett fought a brave battle after a heartbreaking diagnosis. He was young, incredibly fit, but he had oral cancer, and it was terminal. “He kept a sense of humor as long as he could,” said Scott Padgett, Pat’s father. “He fought every day, and he fought to his last breath.” During that battle, Pat, who never smoked, endured a series of difficult surgeries. Pat Padgett (WBZ-TV) “They removed the majority of his tongue,” said Padgett. “It was brutal, and it’s barbaric, and it’s disfiguring.” Patrick’s struggle was the inspiration for Dr. Manijeh Goldberg’s research to find a way to shrink oral cancer tumors to avoid those disfiguring surgeries. “It’s a very nasty cancer,” said Dr. Manijeh Goldberg. Cancer treatment developed by Privo Technology (WBZ-TV) Goldberg and her team at Privo Technologies in Peabody came up with a patch that can fight cancer without the side effects of chemotherapy. “It even looks like a Band-Aid, doesn’t it?” said Dr. Goldberg. “You place it right where the tumor is.” Using nano-technology, the chemotherapy drug is wrapped inside tiny particles that are released from the patch and aim only for the cancer. Dr. Manijeh Goldberg (left) and researchers at Privo Technology (WBZ-TV) “So what we’ve worked for seven years on, how do we make sure that healthy cells don’t like these particles, but cancer cells love them,” said Dr. Goldberg. The patch is in clinical trial...
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