Diamonds Show Promise as Cancer Treatment
UCLA doctors are touting a new treatment for one of the most virulent and difficult to treat forms of breast cancer -- injecting patients with tiny diamond particles that bind together and serve as a dispersal agent for chemotherapy drugs. Tested so far in mice, the diamond mass somehow reduces the toxicity of chemical agents used to treat "triple negative" breast cancer. Said one researcher: "The agent we've developed reduces the toxic side effects that are associated with treatment and mediates significant reductions in tumor size."
-via INSTORE magazine
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