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UCSF scientists combine a precision drug therapy with an antibody and radiation to eliminate tumors without causing side effects.


UCSF scientists developed a way to deliver radiation just to cancerous cells, rather than attacking both cancerous and healthy tissue. The therapy combines a drug to mark the cancer cells for destruction and a radioactive antibody to kill them.

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