Cancer Therapy

New method of delivering chemotherapy using ultrasound works in BYU lab

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 14th, 2003

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy often endure painful side effects caused by the powerful drugs as they course through their entire bodies, damaging healthy tissue and tumors alike.

Brigham Young University researchers are reporting that they have successfully tested a new method in laboratory animals that would concentrate the impact of cancer drugs on specific cancerous tissues, thus sparing the rest of the body from harm.

Their method, described in the December 2002 issue of Cancer Research, combines two key innovations: packaging a drug in tiny molecules of water-soluble plastic so that the drug would not interact while passing...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-01-14)

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