Clinical Edge
Executive Summary
Brief summaries of recent advances in device research and clinical trials, including stem cells that promote bone healing, targeting cancer with nanotechnology, adding radiation to surgery to improve cancer outcomes, finding agressive protate cancer, and a new PET probe that monitors the immune system.
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