Research offers hope for basal cell carcinoma
Monday, April 11, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- People with a genetic condition called basal cell nevus syndrome develop hundreds or even thousands of skin cancers, or basal cell carcinomas, each year. Now Jean Tang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology, is reporting that a drug produced by Genentech called GDC-0449 significantly slowed or stopped the development of tumors in each of 24 patients who received the drug, and caused existing tumors to shrink in size.