Cancer: Pinpoint targeting instead of shotgun approach, say experts
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 16:16
in Health & Medicine
Integrins help cells communicate with and adapt to their environment. Also cancer cells depend on their properties to survive and spread throughout the body. Now scientists have successfully developed a small, highly active molecule that binds to a specific integrin that operates in many types of cancer. In the future it may allow patient-specific diagnoses and subsequent targeted treatment of tumor cells.