Novel Anticancer Drug Yields Positive Response in People with Advanced Or Recurring Skin and Brain Cancer
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 17:07
in Health & Medicine
The Hedgehog signaling pathway is involved in a preliminary study and case report describing positive responses to an experimental anticancer drug in a majority of people with advanced or metastatic basal cell skin cancers. One patient with the most common type of pediatric brain cancer, medulloblastoma, also showed tumor shrinkage.