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Injection to treat Skin Cancer developed

Bioadhesive nanoparticles.
Bioadhesive nanoparticles (white) after being taken up by skin cancer tumor cells during in virtro culture. (Image credit: Julia Lewis)

Yale researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumor, killing cancer cells with a two-pronged approach, as a potential alternative to surgery.

The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “For a lot of patients, treating skin cancer is much more involved than it would be if there was a way to effectively treat them with a simple procedure like an injection,” said Dr. Michael Girardi, professor and vice chair of dermatology at Yale School of Medicine and senior author of the study...

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