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Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers.

Orange tumor with a shape of a football

A number of Centre members were part of a multi-disciplinary team of biomedical engineers, oncologists, radiologists and anaesthetists that have used ultrasound and lipid drug carriers (liposomes) to improve the targeting of cancer drugs to a tumour. The new technology has been used in humans for the very first time, with ultrasound remotely triggering and enhancing the delivery of a cancer drug to the tumour.

Find out more (CRUK Oxford Centre website)