I've been meaning to publish this for a while and am just now getting around to it. The problem is that chemotherapy is not concentrated, it flushes out of your body too quickly. This is an interesting process: they use industrial diamonds, chemically treat them so that they are sticky to the chemo drug, then they're blended, making a grayish slurry. The combo is injected directly into the tumor, and the diamonds help the chemo to persist inside the tumor, so more is delivered to the tumor and the treatment becomes more effective.
NPR diamonds article
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