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Old 02-08-2006, 10:41 AM   #18
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Chemotherapeutic drugs injected into the mammary ducts effectively prevents and treat

Just in case of interest, or for future reference if they are doing trials, re potential limited wider body impact. It would need comparing with RT results.

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http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=9367


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NEW YORK FEB 07, 2006 (Reuters Health) - Chemotherapeutic drugs injected into the mammary ducts effectively prevents and treats mammary tumors in rat and mouse breast cancer models, according to a report in the January 15th Cancer Research.

"The hope is to deliver drugs at high concentrations at the site of the cancer, while avoiding harmful side effects to the rest of the body," Dr. Saraswati Sukumar from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland told Reuters Health. "In laboratory animals, this treatment also gets rid of preneoplasias and initiated tumor cells, thus preventing cancer effectively. The approach makes a whole lot of sense."
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