A Better Way to Administer Chemotherapy? (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

A Better Way to Administer Chemotherapy?

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Fluorescence micrographs show red-colored breast cancer cells that were exposed to three different treatments. The use of ultrasound to trigger periodic bursts of higher drug doses (right) was most effective in killing the cancer cells.

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Harvard's Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS

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