Nanoparticle blocks key molecule involved in spread of breast cancer

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Ongoing clinical trials have shown that a peptide known as PHSCN can slow or prevent the spread of metastatic breast cancer in over a third of patients treated with the drug. This drug works by binding to an activated receptor found on the surface of breast tumor cells but not normal cells.

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