INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that the drug could reinvigorate the response to chemotherapy in cancers that had...
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Study: Drugs reprogram genes in breast tumors to prevent endocrine resistance
by Sharita Forrest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Treating breast tumors with two cancer drugs simultaneously may prevent endocrine resistance by attacking the disease along two separate gene pathways, scientists at the University of Illinois found in a new study. The two drugs used in the study, selinexor and 4-OHT, caused the cancer cells to die and tumors to regress for prolonged periods, said food science and human nutrition professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, the...
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Men with prostate cancer can now be saved by a ‘wonder drug’ which boosts survival rates for women battling breast tumours
Research suggests a new ‘wonder drug’ could help men with prostate cancer The pill boosts survival in women battling genetic breast and ovarian cancer American actor Ben Stiller, 51, revealed he had been diagnosed with the disease A ‘wonder drug’ that boosts survival in women battling genetic breast and ovarian cancer may also be a...