Fighting Cancer With Fat(Page 2) "When you administer a drug, all you can do is measure what's in the blood. You don't really know how much goes to the tumor and you have no idea how uniform it is in the tumor," he said. "This is a potentially clinically useful approach, where you can visualize the drug as it's deposited in the tumor." This article was reported by Ivanhoe.com, which offers Medical Alerts by e-mail every day of the week. To subscribe, click on: http://ivanhoe.com/newsalert/. SOURCE: Ivanhoe interview with Mark Dewhirst, D.V.M., Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center; Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2007;99:53-63 Related Links
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