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12 Days of Research at Mass General: A Strategy for Sneaking Drugs Into Tumor Cells

By Brian Burns | Cancer, Events, Five Things to Know | 0 comment | 18 December, 2017 | 0

In the 12 days leading up to our holiday hiatus, we are looking back on the past year and sharing some highlights in Massachusetts General Hospital research news from each month of 2017.

Could a Technique Echoing an Ancient Greek Military Strategy Point the Way to More Effective Cancer Treatments?

By Brian Burns | Cancer, Five Things to Know, Series | 1 comment | 10 July, 2017 | 1

At Massachusetts General Hospital, a real-life Trojan horse scenario that takes place on the nanoscale level could provide a way to sneak cancer drugs into fortified tumor cells so the drugs can attack from within.