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Researchers have discovered that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas – the most aggressive type of brain tumor – in mice. The team demonstrated that a brief burst of radiation was able to increase uptake of the nanoparticles up to five-fold, activating the immune response at the tumor site and prolonging survival.
