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UrduUC San Diego engineers have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver cancer-fighting medication directly to metastatic tumors.
Tag: lung metastasis
New treatment can significantly increase the efficacy of chemotherapy and prevent metastasis
The researchers identified a mechanism that generated a cancer-promoting inflammatory environment in response to chemotherapy. Based on this discovery, they developed a treatment combination that reduced the incidence of lung metastasis following chemotherapy from 52% to only 6%.