The Economist reports on a study that mice with brain tumors, lymphoma, breast, colon and lung cancers treated with Oncoceutics new drug lived twice as long as untreated mice, and the drug did not seem to cause the wasting side-effects typically associated with chemotherapy. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/02/cancer-drugs
Nature News reports that cancer researchers have pinned down a molecule that can kick-start the body’s own tumor-destroying systems, triggering cell death in cancerous but not healthy tissue in mice. http://www.nature.com/news/small-molecule-drug-drives-cancer-cells-to-suicide-1.12385
Science Daily reports that a compound that stimulates the production of a tumor-fighting protein may improve the usefulness of the protein in cancer therapy. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130206162317.htm
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