UNC researchers kill drug-resistant lung cancer with 50 times less chemo

Posted Jan 18, 2016
The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have packaged it in containers derived from a patient’s own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed by the body’s own defenses and bringing the entire payload to the tumor. (UNC.edu)

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