Most of the drugs used for chemotherapy are poisonous. That allows them to effectively kill cancer cells, but it also wreaks havoc on the rest of a patient’s body, causing side effects ranging from ...

Toxic spills aren’t limited to the environment. They happen inside the body, too, whenever chemotherapeutics slosh beyond the tissues they are meant to target, causing sickening side effects.

A ‘drug sponge’ has been developed that can soak-up drugs from the bloodstream. Excess chemo drugs delivered to a tumor can be absorbed by the ‘drug sponge’ when inserted in a vein leaving the target ...