Microdevices Implanted into Tumors Offer New Way to Treat Brain Cancer (IMAGE)

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Microdevices Implanted into Tumors Offer New Way to Treat Brain Cancer

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Pierpaolo Peruzzi (left) and Oliver Jonas (right) and colleagues have designed a microdevice that can help test treatments in patients with gliomas, a type of tumor that originates in the brain or spinal cord.

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Victoria Roberts, Mass General Brigham Communications

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