Benoit's lab, in the meantime, has been developing polymer nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs to specific parts of the body where a disease occurs, in order to minimize damage to healthy tissues. (rochester.edu)
In certain types of cancer, erythropoietin production by the kidneys, as well as its activity on the bone marrow, is inhibited by cancer - produced cytokines (the substances that mediate inflammation) as well as by chemotherapeutic drugs. (2ndchance.info)