HIV drug blocks bone metastases in prostate cancer

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 13:40 in Health & Medicine

Although prostate cancer can be successfully treated in many men, when the disease metastasizes to the bone, it is eventually lethal. The receptor CCR5, targeted by HIV drugs, is also key in driving prostate cancer metastases, suggesting that blocking this molecule could slow prostate cancer spread.

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