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Injection of the drug CBLB502 has the potential to protect a cancer patient’s healthy cells during radiation treatment.
At least in mice and monkeys’ study, it worked that way!
Mice and monkeys exposed to normally-lethal doses of radiation treatment have lived longer after being injected with the drug CBLB502.
Radiotherapy is used to kill cancer-infected cells through radiation. […]
According to scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), in collaboration with Italian researchers, fasting (for 48 hours) before receiving chemotherapy could help limit the treatment’s toxic effects to cancer cells—and spare healthy ones.
Starving healthy cells helps to differentiate them from tumor cells, a trick that could make cancer treatments more effective.
The new finding […]
Antioxidants in grape skins and red wine can kill pancreatic cancer cells by getting into the center of the cell’s energy - the mitochondria- thereby disabling its function.
Such were the findings of a team from University of Rochester Medical Center.
The new study also showed that when the pancreatic cancer cells were doubly assaulted — pre-treated […]
A research team at Howard Hughes Medical Institute headed by Brian J. Druker has developed, in pursuit of personalized medicine, a new technique in identifying previously unknown genetic mutations that trigger growth of cancer cells.
Inside cells of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the researchers have dramatically reduced the time it takes to pinpoint molecular abnormalities that […]
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