{"id":309852,"date":"2026-02-21T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:00:14","slug":"how-magnetic-heating-technology-could-be-a-new-cancer-fighting-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309852\/","title":{"rendered":"How magnetic heating technology could be a new cancer-fighting weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has used an induction cooker is halfway to understanding Mayo Clinic\u2019s new experimental approach to killing cancer cells.<\/p>\n

The health system, based in the US state of Minnesota, announced that it is the first in the US to test Israeli technology that targets solid tumours with fast-rising heat in a process it calls hyperthermia.<\/p>\n

\u201cTemperature is the Achilles\u2019 heel of cancer,\u201d says Dr Scott Lester, the Mayo radiation oncologist leading a clinical trial to see if the technology is safe.<\/p>\n

The challenge is in creating a therapy that focuses heat on cancer cells and does not damage the rest of the body. The company New Phase created a possible solution: to inject iron-containing nanoparticles that bind with cancer cells and make them identifiable targets for its magnetic-heating technology.<\/p>\n

The encoded particles prevent overheating and keep the induced temperature at no more than 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n

\"DrDr Scott Lester is the Mayo oncologist leading the trial to see if magnetic heating technology is safe. Photo: mayoclinic.org<\/p>\n

Induction cookers can produce rapid heat and cause pots to quickly boil over, Lester says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who has used an induction cooker is halfway to understanding Mayo Clinic\u2019s new experimental approach to killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59063,258,5799,145379,145380,103,5486,75248,61,3176,60,110357,6777,9542,145381,11448,145378,80,1179],"class_list":["post-309852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-american-cancer-society","tag-cancer","tag-chemotherapy","tag-dr-nadia-laack","tag-dr-scott-lester","tag-health","tag-heating","tag-hyperthermia","tag-ie","tag-immune-system","tag-ireland","tag-magnetic","tag-mayo-clinic","tag-nanoparticles","tag-new-phase","tag-radiation","tag-solid-tumours","tag-technology","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}