Trojan horse drug therapy provides new approach to treating breast cancer
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 13:52
in Health & Medicine
When administrative assistant Linda Tuttle was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined her experience would inspire her colleagues to design new treatments to tackle the disease. But after her diagnosis, Tuttle's use of tamoxifen, a drug commonly used to treat breast cancer, inspired medicinal chemists to develop a targeted therapy that delivers a sneak attack to the disease, similar to a Trojan horse.