Novel anti-cancer drug yields positive response in people with advanced skin and brain cancer
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is involved in a preliminary study and case report describing positive responses to an experimental anticancer drug in a majority of people with advanced or metastatic basal cell skin cancers. One patient with the most common type of pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma, also showed tumor shrinkage.