Researchers use nanoparticles to send chemotherapy drug directly to the tumor site

Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 08:40 in Health & Medicine

The overall five-year survival rate for people with pancreatic cancer is just 6 percent, and there is an urgent need for new treatment options. More than 80 percent of pancreatic cancer diagnoses occur too late for surgery, making chemotherapy the only possible treatment.

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