Microscopic 'Depots' Concentrate Drugs Inside Cancer Tumors (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Microscopic 'Depots' Concentrate Drugs Inside Cancer Tumors

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Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a technique for creating microscopic "depots" for trapping drugs inside cancer tumors. In an animal model, these drug depots were 10 times more effective at shrinking tumors than the use of the same drugs without the depots.

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Quanyin Hu

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