Nanoparticle Treatment of Cancer

Abstract
The accompanying figure outlines elements of cell biology which can go awry during cell duplication and division [1,2]. If a duplication problem occurs, the cell often dies. But on occasion the problem can lead to uncontrolled duplication, tumorigenesis, and even cancer [3]. The duplication problem occurs with geometric distortion or over-duplication of centrioles – small perpendicular hollow cylinders lying adjacent to the cell nucleus [4]. The Figure 1 shows how this over-duplication occurs, a cancer cell is created and then how the resulting cancerous tumor can be treated by nanoparticles.