Tuesday 21 April 2009

Brigham and Women's Hospital Researchers Demonstrate a More Direct Delivery of Cancer Drugs to Tumors

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors by using specially engineered nanoparticles that can inhibit a signaling pathway and deliver a higher concentration of medication to the specific area. Details of their work appear on April 20, in an early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (PRWeb Apr 20, 2009)


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[Source: PRWeb: Lifestyle Health and Fitness]

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