Two-in-one packaging may increase drug efficacy and reduce side effects

Monday, January 11, 2016 - 12:42 in Health & Medicine

Chemotherapy often comes with powerful side effects, and one of the reasons for this is that the drugs used to kill cancer cells can also damage other fast-growing cells in the body, like hair follicles. But one possibility for reducing these side effects may be if the chemotherapy drugs only become toxic when they reach the tumor.

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