The President of the African University
of Science and Technology (AUST ),
Abuja, Professor Wole Soboyejo, has
disclosed that research in new methods
for the treatment of cancer has reached
an advanced stage, compared to the
treatment of the disease through
chemotherapy.
Soboyejo unveiled this yesterday at the
opening ceremony of a five-day workshop on
Nanomedicine and Bio-Micro-Electrical
Systems (BIOMEMS) organised by the Federal
University of Technology, Minna in
collaboration with AUST.
The new method of treatment would give
room for early detection.
According to him, the new method of
treatment will have little or no side effect on
the patients, adding that unlike
chemotherapy, the medicine is selective,
saying when administered, it goes direct to
the region of the disease unlike the present
form of treatment which must go through all
the blood vessels before attacking the area
of the disease.
He added that the new method is cost
effective as patients need not take large
number of dosages of the medicine before it
could go round the body to have impact on the
affected part.
According to him, research for the new
treatment had started eight years ago and
had proven to be effective after testing it on
animals adding that it would soon be tested
on human beings.
He however said administering the new
treatment has to be through injection.
He added that the workshop was conducted
with the aim of bringing the young scholars
and scientists on board for their contribution
for research work on BIOMEMS.