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nanoparticles prostate cancer treatment?

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Just read this article about using Gold nanoparticles to invade and destroy prostate cancer cells:

medicalnewstoday.com/articl...

This article is a bit anemic, it "tries" to explain Gold nanoparticles, claims "Results are Promising", but does not provide any evidence

Was thinking something like Star Trek's Borg nanoprobes, which makes sense, seek and destroy, since cancer cells don't have self-destruction instructions.

Anyway, here's the clinical trials link, the Inclusion Criteria is ridiculous:

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show....

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I wonder how these nano particles seek out cancer cells, or vice versa. If I got this I bet it would turn my blue eyes green. Just sayin'. Goldfinger, anyone?

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14K, 18K or 24K?

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 12/27/2018 7:22 PM EST

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Well, I'm holding out for low cut diamonds, for obvious side effects and when cured, would make amazing earrings for my wife!

I'm sure we can fine tune the kidneys to accumulate and polish the diamonds. My kidneys are already optimized with making stones...

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Well my family jewels are worthless since they've shrunk. My kidney stones are jingling around in my kidneys, better there than deciding to exit. Pain Pain Pain.

BTW I live in Queens NY. Home of the Mets...

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Thursday 12/27/2018 9:34 PM EST

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Yes sir, currently have kidneys stones dangling as well, happy for this state, since the last three passings changed my religion each time!

Oh, sweet memories of the Astoria to Jackson Heights and finally Shea Stadium 7 line hops. My time was mostly Jewish, and various Europeans in the Flushing area, and us few Cubans, was a bad kid at St Joseph's Catholic school, had to end up at Newtown High School, cool...

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Yankees/Dodgers, Ebbets Field 1954 World Series. Watched it on B&W TV from Beaumont, Texas. Yes, it was a neighbor's tv!

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