Jul 20, 2018
Over the decades, many types of cancer-targeted treatments, drug therapies, or a combination of the two, have emerged in an attempt to address the rising number of patients, worldwide. But yet, as of 2017, there were about 1.6 million new cancer patients and an estimated 600k cancer deaths in the United States alone.
A team of scientists has designed a novel method of delivering chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells in the body — triggered by X-rays and filled into liposomes or “nano-bubbles” that release its contents precisely at the right location and right time.
