Drug now used to treat erectile dysfuncton may enhance delivery of herceptin to certain brain tumours

Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 13:11 in Health & Medicine

New research by scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute suggests that a drug currently approved to treat erectile dysfunction may significantly enhance the delivery of the anti-cancer drug Herceptin to certain hard-to-treat brain tumours. The research, published in the journal PLoS ONE, could help doctors improve treatments for lung and breast cancers that have metastasised to the brain...

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