Flow Cytometry: 21st Century Nuclear Medicine For Cancer Shows Promise
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 11:20
in Health & Medicine
Targeted therapy with radiopharmaceuticals - radioactive compounds used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis or treatment - has a lot of potential to more effectively kill cancer cells that have migrated from primary tumors to lymph nodes and secondary organs such as bone marrow. Disseminated tumor cells can be difficult to treat with a single targeting agent because there are dramatic differences in the number of targetable receptors in each cell. read more