Chloroquine, used for malaria treatment, has also shown to normalize the abnormal blood vessels in tumors, in a recent study by investigators at VIB and KU Leuven. This blood vessel normalization results in an increased barrier function on the one hand -- thereby blocking cancer cell dissemination and metastasis -- and in enhanced tumor perfusion on the other hand, which increases the response of the tumor to chemotherapy. The anti-cancer effect of the antimalarial ...
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