Sparing the Body, Breast Cancer Treatment via Nipple Injection
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 08:50
in Health & Medicine
On October 4, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, will publish a new technique for breast cancer treatment and prevention--injection of therapeutics via the nipple. The procedure, demonstrated on mice, offers direct access to the most common origin of breast cancer, the milk ducts, and could be used to offer cancer therapy that spares healthy regions of the body.