Cancer Treatments Combine Forces to Infiltrate Previously Unreachable Tumors (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Cancer Treatments Combine Forces to Infiltrate Previously Unreachable Tumors (1 of 3)

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This is an illustration depicting how low-dose radiation can help therapeutic nanoparticles treat cancer by inducing a burst of vascular leakage inside tumors.

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Miles Miller and Ralph Weissleder, MGH

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