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Now, a technique to reduce side effects of chemotherapy

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Researchers from VIB/KU Leuven, Belgium have found that chemotherapy combined with specific PHD2 inhibitors would make it more effective while reducing the harmful side effects.

The effectiveness of chemotherapy is limited by the difficulties of delivering the anticancer drugs to the actual tumour, researchers said in a statement.

Tumours are characterised by abnormally shaped blood vessels

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First Published: Aug 15 2012 | 5:20 PM IST

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