New Cancer Treatment Targets Both Tumor Cells And Blood Vessels
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 19:28
in Health & Medicine
It takes more than one punch to fight tumors. Often, tumors have more than one way of surviving, and attacking the tumor 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 tumor cells with an antibody that causes selective shutdown of tumor blood vessels.