Tagging cancer cells in tumors might help with future treatment.
The method uses small-molecule sugars to produce unique, artificial cell surface receptors on cancer cells.
Study leader Jianjun Cheng, a professor in materials science and engineering at Illinois, explains that there is a lack of targeted therapies for certain cancers because they do not have any of the receptors that available treatments normally target.
One such cancer is triple-negative breast cancer – an aggressive cancer with a low survival rate.
|Read Full Article: Cancer: New method tags elusive tumors for targeted therapy – Medical News Today|