AMERICAN researchers are claiming dramatic results in treating Kaposi鈥檚
sarcoma, a cancer found in some AIDS patients. They used liposomes, spheres of
a fatty substance, to carry an anticancer drug, daunorubicin, into cells. The
liposomes target the cancer cells so fewer healthy cells are destroyed. Two-
thirds of patients鈥� tumours shrank.
The scientists, based at the California Cancer Medical Center in Los
Angeles, believe the liposome technology could help in treating cancers of the
lung, prostate and colon.
