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Deadliest Lung Cancer Breakthrough
from the Telegraph (UK)
British researchers have found that a drug destroys tumours in a form of inoperable lung cancer that kills more than nine out of 10 sufferers. The treatment works by blocking the growth of the cancer cells and eventually causing them to self destruct.
In more than 50 percent of the trials, the treatment, which appears to have no side effects, killed all traces of the disease. "We are very excited about it," said Professor Michael Seckl, the molecular oncologist who led the study at Imperial College London.
... The researchers behind the new study, published in the journal Cancer Research, have identified a drug that, in half of the mice treated, was able to completely shrink tumours away. It was also able to stop tumours from growing back and it helped other forms of chemotherapy to work more effectively.
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