(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- 75 percent of people in the United States with cancer receive chemotherapy. With low response levels to the drug in addition to its detrimental side effects, chemotherapy offers more of a risk than it does results. This controversial chemical concoction has been under debate for more than 50 years due to it’s toxicity, however researchers reported that micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy far less toxic to surrounding tissue.
