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IMAGE: The clinical trial is the first step toward the team's overall goal: Developing a platform that combines radiotherapy with immunotherapy, drugs that help a patient's own immune system fight off...
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A potential new weapon against cancer is entering the first phase of clinical trials thanks to a collaboration between Spectrum Health, the Lansing-based company Niowave and Michigan State University.
MSU's Kurt Zinn, a professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and small animal clinical sciences, is leading the effort to validate an innovative radiotherapy as part of a safe, more effective and potentially less costly treatment for bladder cancer.