Article: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY'S ANIMAL CANCER CENTER DISCOVERS RADIATION DRUG TECHNIQUE WITHOUT TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Colorado State University issued the following press release:

Colorado State University researchers have developed a way to deliver intravenous radiation drugs to bone cancer patients without causing damage to other healthy cells and vital organs, drastically reducing illness and other common side effects of toxic radiation treatments. The technique also allows doctors to deliver radiation in only one dose - as opposed to the standard of three to six - and in a higher, more effective concentration.

By isolating and separating circulating blood to the area of the tumor through a heart lung machine while delivering radioactive drugs, doctors at the university's Animal Cancer Center deliver ...

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