Highly effective new anti-cancer drug shows few side effects in mice
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A new drug, OTS964, can eradicate aggressive human lung cancers transplanted into mice, scientists report. It inhibits the action of a protein that is overproduced by several tumor types but is rarely expressed in healthy adult tissues. Without it, cancer cells fail to complete the cell-division process and die.