Novel compound halts tumor spread, improves brain cancer treatment in animal studies
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
By stopping the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models, researchers have developed a new strategy for treating brain cancer that could improve clinical outcomes. The researchers treated animals possessing an invasive tumor with a novel molecule called imipramine blue, followed by conventional doxorubicin chemotherapy. The tumors ceased their invasion of healthy tissue and the animals survived longer than animals treated with chemotherapy alone.
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