New drug combo targets multiple cancers: Sugar molecule primes cancer cells for early death from second compound

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers say a novel combination of a specific sugar molecule with a pair of cell-killing drugs prompts a wide variety of cancer cell types to kill themselves, a process called apoptosis or programmed cell death.

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