I am posting about this because I though it was so interesting. Thankfully, I and nobody I know has brain cancer but I am always on the lookout for interesting and innovative breakthroughs in science. And I think this fits.
Health physicist Alan M. Jackson (AlanJ@rad.hfh.edu) of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit is in clinical trials involving human patients on a treatment for an aggressive, essentially incurable (till perhaps now) malignant cancer called high-grade brain glioma. The procedure uses a synthetic version of the venom protein that binds selectively to the glioma cells. This is attached to a radioactive substance that then kills the glioma cells. When injected into the bloodstream, the radioactive scorpion venom travels to the brain and attaches to the glioma cells, that then kills the cells.