Radiation-Guided Nanoparticles Zero in on Metastatic Cancer (IMAGE)

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Radiation-Guided Nanoparticles Zero in on Metastatic Cancer

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This is a schematic illustration of selectins' role in inflammation (A) and cancer progression (B). This mechanism can be used for selectin-based targeted therapy (C). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 29, 2016 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y. Shamay at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "P-selectin is a nanotherapeutic delivery target in the tumor microenvironment."

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Kedmi <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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