Meet City of Hope–Santa Clarita Doctor: M. Houman Fekrazad on a Potential Chemotherapy Patch
Chemotherapy is a major tool in the fight against cancer. This method of using drugs to destroy cancer cells has successfully treated many patients. Yet while chemotherapy has been proven to effectively attack cancer cells, it can cause serious side effects that can severely impact a patient’s quality of life.
M. Houman Fekrazad, M.D., an associate clinical professor of medical oncology at City of Hope | Santa Clarita, discusses ongoing research, including a new chemotherapy patch he is currently developing. Such research has considerable promise not only to increase chemotherapy’s efficacy, but to reduce the toxic side effects that often accompany this form of treatment.
Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells. At the same time, it can damage normal healthy cells of the human body. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects.
Dr. Fekrazad owns a patent on a patch that can deliver chemotherapy through the skin. By today’s standards, there have only been two ways to administer anti-cancer drugs – intravenously and orally. In this project, we aim to put chemotherapy into nanoparticles and then pass it through the skin. The chemotherapy will then be released in the bloodstream to target the cancer cells.
To learn more, call 661-799-1999 or visit www.CityofHope.org/santaclarita.
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