Carriers deliver controllable cancer chemotherapy

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 08:10 in Health & Medicine

Cancer kills more than half a million men, women, and children each year in the U.S, and chemotherapy is only slightly more discriminating than the disease it treats. As a result, many cancer treatments kill cells throughout the body and cause severe side effects. New IRP research could solve this problem by creating a way to release those toxic compounds only when and where doctors desire.

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