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Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment

  • Written by Tom Anchordoquy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatmentResearchers are studying the potential of gold nanoparticles (yellow dots) to deliver drugs into the body.Veronika Sapozhnikova, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebecca Richards-Kortum/M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University via NIH/Flickr

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