Project

Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia for the treatment of spinal metastases

Code
01IO5014
Duration
01 October 2014 → 31 July 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Palliative care and end-of-life care
    • Regenerative medicine
    • Other basic sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Palliative care and end-of-life care
    • Regenerative medicine
    • Other clinical sciences
    • Other health sciences
    • Nursing
    • Other paramedical sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Palliative care and end-of-life care
    • Regenerative medicine
    • Other translational sciences
    • Other medical and health sciences
Keywords
spinal metastases
 
Project description

This project proposes the development and the understanding of a therapy

that enables on the one hand stabilization of the spine and on the other hand

the hyperthermia of the spinal metastatic tumors. Traditional bone cement

does not contain any magnetic materials inside and thus does not interact

with the magnetic field. This cement loaded with magnetic nanoparticles,

can be clinically administered in a minimally invasive way as it is being

done in vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty. The magnetic nanoparticles can

then be activated through an externally generated magnetic field so that

they heat the bone cement and thus the surrounding biological tissue.