Theralase bringing a Technology to Fight Bladder Cancer
Killing bladder cancer with new treatment
Your kidneys filter waste products from your blood, creating urine and sending it through thin tubes into your bladder. When your bladder is full, you urinate to eliminate the waste.
Urine can contain toxic chemicals that can damage the inner lining of the bladder and cause bladder cancer. Also, about most bladder cancers are detected early and treatments with a drug known as BCG are successful. Basically, in 25 to 30% of these cases the treatments fail and patients become BCG-Unresponsive.
If this happens, the current treatment for BCG-Unresponsive is –
- Bladder removal
- Therefore, it is complex and costly procedure, with numerous quality of life impacts.
Once TLD-1433 is inside the bladder following things are done –
- Cancer cells, fibre optics are inserted into the bladder
- A laser is used to light activate the drug to destroy the bladder cancer cells from the inside out, leaving the bladder intact.
- The liquid in the bladder is then voided and the dead cancer cells excreted.
