Compound Halts Tumor Spread, Improves Brain Cancer Treatment in Animal Studies
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have developed a new strategy for treating brain cancer that could improve clinical outcomes. They treated invasive tumors with imipramine blue followed by chemotherapy. The tumors ceased their invasion of healthy tissue and the animals survived longer than with chemo treatment alone.
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