Targeting tumors: Researchers develop more precise approach to delivery of chemotherapy drugs
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemotherapy is one of the most effective ways to fight cancer, but the toxic medicine can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue. UC Irvine's Kenneth Longmuir, physiology & biophysics associate professor, and Richard Robertson, anatomy & neurobiology professor, believe they have developed a way for these drugs to reach specific tumors with increased precision, thereby limiting side effects.