Cholesterol Finding Offers New Way To Kill Lymphoma Without Chemotherapy

Medical News Today: How do you annihilate lymphoma without using any drugs? Starve it to death by depriving it of what appears to be a favorite food: HDLcholesterolNorthwestern Medicine® researchers discovered this with a new nanoparticle that acts like a secret double agent. It appears to the cancerous lymphoma cell like a preferred meal -- natural HDL. But when the particle engages the cell, it actually plugs it up and blocks cholesterol from entering. Deprived of an essential nutrient, the cell eventually dies. 
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