Novel cancer treatment targets both tumour cells and blood vessels
Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 07:07
in Health & Medicine
It takes more than one punch to fight tumours. Often, tumours have more than one way of surviving, and attacking the tumour 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 tumour cells with an antibody that causes selective shutdown of tumour blood vessels...
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