Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable 'brain tumour painting'

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 04:14 in Health & Medicine

Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers. It's also one of the hardest to treat. Imaging results are often imprecise because brain cancers are extremely invasive. Surgeons must saw through the skull and safely remove as much of the tumour as they can. Then doctors use radiation or chemotherapy to destroy cancerous cells in the surrounding tissue...

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