Arjun aims at Cancer treatment method

We have all heard of cancer and the dreaded suffering it inflicts upon its patient. But how many of us ever thought of finding a cure to end the suffering. Here’s a high school student who felt the need to make a difference. He saw his grandmother, a cancer patient, suffer a lot through therapy, so he began researching about cancer and its treatment.

Arjun Nair, an Indian American student, went on to make headlines with his discovery towards making the Cancer treatment method more effective.

Arjun managed to improve an ineffective experimental cancer therapy called the Photothermal Therapy or PTT, with a simple tweak, which was pairing it with antibiotics.

Cancer Phytothermal Therapy is a process, wherein a patient is injected with gold nanoparticles, which then accumulate in tumors and, when heated using light, attack the cancer cells. However, the therapy didn’t turn out to be very successful, as the cancer cells fight back, producing heat-shock proteins to protect them.

But Arjun Nair, 16, has done the impossible; as he showed how an antibiotic (17-AAG) may overcome the defenses deployed by cancer cells and will make the treatment more effective.

Arjun worked on the concept at the University of Calgary's Nanoscience Labs in Alberta for 2 years and eventually his discovery earned him the top prize in the 20th Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada.

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