Thursday 21 August 2014

Leukemia Drug Could be Used for Treatment of Some Other Cancers too

Dasatinib, a leukemia drug, shows promise for treating breast, skin and other cancers also, suggest researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Dasatinib fights leukemia by checking the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. But when used against other cancer cells, researchers found, the drug employs a different strategy: It causes the cells to clump together, thus preventing them from migrating. Without the ability to migrate, cancer cells ...

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