Saturday 4 April 2015

Discarded Anti-Cancer Drug Better at Killing Cancer Cells

Researchers from the University of Missouri suggests that a discarded anti-cancer drug might be more useful in the fight against cancer than previously thought. Doctors used 6-Thioguanine, or 6-TG, as a chemotherapy treatment to kill cancer cells in patients for decades. However, in recent years, many doctors have shelved 6-TG in favour of newer drugs. Now, researchers found that 6-TG can not only kill cancer cells, but also works to change how certain cancer ...

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