Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Transport Anti-Cancer Drugs Directly To Tumors
Friday, July 11, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Researchers are working on a method of delivering cancer drugs that promises to be more efficient and reduce the side effects patients have to deal with. "Although chemotherapy has saved many lives, it often has undesirable side effects," said one of the researchers. "The people most excited about this research are people who have gone through chemo, because our approach may circumvent many of those side effects."
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