Slipping Through Cell Walls, Nanotubes Deliver High-potency Punch To Cancer Tumors In Mice
Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
A big challenge in treating cancer with chemotherapy is how to get the most medication into the cells of a tumor without "spillover" of the medication adversely affecting the healthy cells in a patient's body. Now researchers have addressed that problem using single-walled carbon nanotubes as delivery vehicles. This method gets a higher proportion of a given dose of medication into the tumor cells than is possible with the "free" drug.