Researchers load nanocarriers to deliver chemotherapy drugs and imaging molecules to tumors
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 15:01
in Health & Medicine
A conundrum of cancer is the tumor's ability to use our bodies as human shields to deflect treatment. Tumors grow among normal tissues and organs, often giving doctors few options but to damage, poison or remove healthy parts of our body in attempts to beat back the cancer with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation.