‘Inhaled Chemo’

Inhaled Chemo

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

inhaled chempoOne of the main problems of classical chemotherapy are its terrible side effects. The drugs, which are fairly nonspecific poisons, kill cancer cells but also affect normal, which creates many problems for the patient. This is a serious condition by the fact that these drugs are often injected into the vein, and its effects end up being general. In some cancers, this could be avoided. For example, would greatly improve treatment efficacy in lung cancer if you could do to reach directly by airway.
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