Chemotherapy hydrogel could fight skin cancer from the outside

Skin cancer might seem like the easiest cancer to deal with – after all, it's right there on the outside of the body, so removing it should be simple and safe, right? But treatment often still requires chemotherapy, which is delivered intravenously and can cause a whole range of unpleasant side effects. Now, researchers have made the first steps towards a kind of chemo that can be "painted" onto the skin.

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Category: Medical

Tags:

• American Chemical Society
• Cancer
• Chemotherapy
• Hydrogels
• Melanoma
• Skin
• Skin Cancer

from New Atlas (Gizmag) https://ift.tt/2NN0z29