Image-guided breast cancer therapy enabled by nanodrug

By combining an iron oxide nanoparticle, a tumor-targeting peptide, and a therapeutic nucleic acid into one construct, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have created an agent that holds potential as targeted therapy for breast cancer. In addition, this new agent can be easily tracked in the body using standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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