New arsenic nanoparticle blocks aggressive breast cancer

Friday, July 16, 2010 - 07:56 in Health & Medicine

You can teach an old drug new chemotherapy tricks. Northwestern University researchers took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumours, packaged it with nanotechnology and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women...

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