Researchers use ultrasound to activate cancer-killing drugs
Since your liver is surrounded by delicate blood vessels and bile ducts, cancers are tough to treat with toxic chemotherapy drugs and usually require surgery. However, researchers from the University...
View ArticleResearchers kill drug-resistant cancer in the lab using 50 times less chemo
Researchers in the US have just made an existing chemotherapy drug way more effective, managing to kill drug-resistant lung cancer cells in the lab using 50 times less of the medication than is...
View ArticleChemo Patch to Treat Pancreatic Cancer With Fewer Side Effects
Chemotherapy is typically delivered by IV injection, leading to large amount of the poison reaching the healthy body while tumors don’t get a sufficient dose. Chemotherapy of the pancreas is...
View ArticleHow nanotechnology research could cure cancer and other diseases
Here’s how cancer treatment often runs today: a patient develops an aggressive tumor. A surgeon operates to remove the tumor, but a few cancer cells remain, hiding in the body. Chemotherapy is...
View ArticleUltrasound implant can help chemo drugs reach brain tumors
One of the biggest problems with brain cancer treatment is that only a limited amount of chemotherapy drugs make it through. See, our brain’s blood vessels are tightly lined with cells to keep out...
View ArticleTumor Patch Brings Three Weapons to Fight Cancer
Approximately one in 20 people will develop colorectal cancer in their lifetime, making it the third-most prevalent form of the disease in the U.S. In Europe, it is the second-most common form of...
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