Andrew Gregory Health editor in Chicago Thousands of bowel cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy, a study suggests, after doctors discovered they could rely on chemotherapy and surgery alone to treat their disease. Radiotherapy has been used to treat bowel cancer patients for decades, but the side-effects can be brutal. It can cause problems that...
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Nanotechnology offers new hope for bowel cancer patients
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA IMAGE: 3D ILLUSTRATION OF A NANOBOT ATTACKING A CANCER CELL. CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles to the diseased organs rather than oral treatment. That’s the finding from Indian and Australian scientists who have undertaken the first...