American scientists have developed a new method of fighting cancer. A group of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a particularly thin type of nanofiber that attracts cancer cells to itself. Animal studies have shown that cancerous brain tumors shrink after cancer cells begin to move along these fibers..

The subject of the study was the difficult-to-treat types of brain cancer - gliobastomas, which tend to spread in the brain..

Cancer cells travel through nerve fibers and blood vessels as they spread to the brain.

Nanofibers, described in a publication in the journal Nature Materials, mimic such pathways for the spread of cancer cells.

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Animal studies show that cancer cells can be removed from the brain and sent to a specially implanted capsule containing toxic substances.. In animals injected with nanofibers, the size of tumors decreased by 93% compared to a group of rats in which cancer developed freely.

However, research is still at an early stage, and it will be a long time before it is transferred from laboratory animals to humans..

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