A novel tumor-targeting agent has helped to detect and treat a wide variety of cancers, according to a new study. As this is new agent it dubbed the tumor-targeting alkylphosphocholine (APC) molecule that can travel throughout the body, even crossing the normally difficult-to-penetrate blood-brain barrier and stick to cancer cells throughout its journey, researchers say. Because it attaches to cancer cells and not to healthy ones, it could potentially be used to mark cancer cells for imaging tests or be used to deliver radioactive medication directly to cancer cells.

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