A stem cell - based method created by University of California, Irvine scientists can selectively target and kill cancerous tissue while preventing some of
the toxic side effects of chemotherapy by treating the disease in a more localized way.
A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has developed a non-invasive method of delivering drugs directly to cancerous tissue using magnetic forces, a form of treatment that could significantly reduce
the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.
Not exact matches
The authors
of the study say that improvements in management, multi-drug
chemotherapy, immunotherapies, stem cell transplants, radiotherapy and treatments that have less
toxic side -
effects have all contributed to the improvement in survival from leukemia.
Not all
chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process
of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to
toxic side effects.