Summary: Heating up cancer cells as they are being targeted with chemotherapy appears to be a highly effective way of killing them off.
Source: UCL
The study, published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B, found that “loading” a chemotherapy drug on to tiny magnetic particles that can heat up the cancer cells at the same time as delivering the drug to them was up to 34% more effective at destroying the cancer cells than the chemotherapy drug without added heat.
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