A new report by the group Cancer Research UK compares lung cancer rates in the British population from 1975 to 2008. The report showed that the number of women over sixty years of age diagnosed with lung cancer jumped from 5,700 in 1975 to 15,100 in 2008, an increase of nearly 165 percent in just… Continue reading Lung Cancer Rates Increase Among British Women
Month: July 2011
Nanoparticles Communicate to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs
Teams of researchers at opposite ends of the country have recently developed an improved system to deliver chemotherapy drugs to attack malignant cells. Scientists at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Sand Diego have devised a method involving microscopic machines known as nanoparticles. Although cancer researchers have used nanoparticles… Continue reading Nanoparticles Communicate to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs