Hub researchers are developing a cancer-fighting weapon no bigger than a grain of rice that can be filled with dozens of different chemotherapy drugs and implanted directly into a tumor to determine the best treatment — effectively turning the human body into its own lab.
“The idea is that right now, when somebody has cancer, doctors don’t immediately know what the right cancer drug is or the right combination,” said Robert Langer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “It’s the exact idea of personalized medicine.”
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