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Monday, September 12, 2011

First proof in patients of an improved 'magic bullet' for cancer detection and radio-therapy

First proof in patients of an improved 'magic bullet' for cancer detection and radio-therapy

Oncologists have long sought a powerful "magic bullet" that can find tumors wherever they hide in the body so that they can be imaged and then destroyed. Until recently scientists accepted the notion that such an agent, an agonist, needed to enter and accumulate in the cancerous cells to act. An international research team has now shown in cancer patients that an investigational agent that sticks onto the surface of tumor cells without triggering internalization, an antagonist, may be safer and even more effective than agonists.

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