Yet another pill cure looms for some lung cancers
Submitted by rlewis on Thu, 12/11/2009 - 06:43.
11/11/2009
Daily Telegraph
By: Presswatch
Pill may cure lung cancer that kills 97 per cent of victims
A pill that could cure a small cell lung cancer which kills 97 per cent of sufferers within five years of diagnosis is being developed by scientists. The researchers at Imperial College, whose study is published in the journal Cancer Research, have identified a drug that, in half of mice treated, shrank tumours to nothing. It was also able to stop tumours from growing back and helped other forms of chemotherapy work more effectively.
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