Finding could lead to reduced side effects in anti-cancer antibiotics
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 13:50
in Health & Medicine
Most of us have had a doctor prescribe an antibiotic for a stubborn bacterial infection, or for a cut that gets infected. However, prescribing an antibiotic to fight cancer? In fact, anti-cancer antibiotics have been used since the 1950s to successfully treat several forms of cancer, but often the side effects limit the duration they can be given to a patient.