New cancer treatment targets both tumor cells and blood vessels
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
MU researchers develop nontoxic treatment that has broad anti-cancer potential It takes more than one punch to fight tumors. Often, tumors have more than one way of surviving, and attacking the tumor alone is not enough. Now, in a new study, University of Missouri researchers have developed a new non-toxic treatment that effectively reduces breast cancer cells, by combining a small molecular drug that targets tumor cells with an antibody that causes selective shutdown of tumor blood vessels.