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Magnetic seeds used to heat and kill cancer

2 February 2022

Scientists at UCL, including Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging), have developed a novel cancer therapy that uses an MRI scanner to guide a magnetic seed through the brain to heat and destroy tumours.

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