advanced stage by Nigerian scholars. The new method would be different
from the present means of treatment of cancer and related diseases
through chemotherapy.
The President of the African University of Science and Technology
(AUST ), Abuja, Professor Wole Soboyejo, disclosed 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.
According to him, the new method of treatment would be more effective
than chemotherapy as the medicine is selective because when
administered it will have direct effect on the region of the disease.
He explained that the present form of treatment was different because
it must go through all the blood vessels before attacking the area of
the disease.
He listed the advantages of the new treatment to include less or no
side effects on human body unlike chemotherapy that has side effect
and is less cost effective because patients need to take large number
of dosages of the medicine before it could go round the body to have
impact on the affected areas.
Soboyejo said the new method 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 that to administer the new treatment , it must be
through injection while pointing out that the workshop was aimed at
bringing young scholars and scientists on board for their contribution
for the final outcome.