Iranian Firm Develops Promising Treatment for Deep Wounds in Breast Cancer Patients
“The production of a negative pressure device for breast cancer wounds is one of our achievements. The prototype has been manufactured and we have received the test results, which have shown promising results,” said Mehdi Pesaran, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
Noting that the wounds are for breast cancer patients who undergo mastectomy surgery, in which breast tissue is removed, he said, “In this operation, a large area is cut, and since the lymph is active in that area, wound secretions are high. These patients also undergo radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and therefore, the body is not ready to heal the wound quickly.”
“Therefore, the treatment and healing of wounds in these patients takes time. In the world, to treat these types of wounds, they create very slight negative pressure for the patient, and special dressings are used to treat the wound. Inspired by this global idea, we produced the prototype of this product,” Pesaran said.
In a relevant development in 2024, a researcher at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) in Iran designed and produced electrochemical biosensors for the early detection of microRNAs that are involved in breast cancer.
“Designing and manufactureing of electrochemical biosensors for early detection of microRNAs involved in breast cancer in a microfluidic platform” was the title of the PhD thesis done by Jalil Parchekani Choozaki at the Tehran-based Tarbiat Modares University (TMU).
Parchekani, who has a PhD in Biophysics from the TMU explained about his dissertation’s topic, saying, “Discovering a method to prevent cancer and early detection of it has always been of great importance.”
“Late detection of cancer can result in its spread to other body parts and infect other tissues through the metastasis, which takes place through the lymphatic or blood vessels to distant sites. When metastasis occurs, the treatment becomes very difficult as it becomes a malignancy,” the TMU researcher said.
He further noted that according to the World Health Organization’s statistics, breast cancer along with lung cancer are the most prevalent cancers among people worldwide, adding that the breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among Iranian women.
Perchakani went on to recall that breast cancer can be seen in both women and men, but its prevalence is much higher in women than in men.
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