Going for gold with a novel interventional radiology treatment for pancreatic cancer
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 07:49
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 'nanoembolisation,' said researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla...
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