Going for gold with a novel interventional radiology treatment for pancreatic cancer
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
Pancreatic cancer -known as the most fatal cancer with no known effective treatment -requires a radical new therapy. A promising approach may come in the form of tiny gold nanoparticles -loaded with a therapeutic agent to kill cancer -in a novel procedure called "nanoembolization," said researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.
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