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Breakthrough Single-Dose Drug Wipes Out Breast Tumors in Mice Without Side Effects
(www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
- Approximately 75% of breast cancers are of a certain type.
- We know of ways to target this type of cancer directly and indirectly.
- However, these methods rarely fully cure the problem, and the patient eventually develops a resistance to these treatments, which makes continued use less effective.
- We recently examined and reported on a drug which targets this common cancer type in a novel way and is remarkably effective.
- However, that drug also interacts with non-cancerous cells in certain contexts, which ideally you want a cancer-targeting drug to avoid wherever possible.
- We examine and report on a variant of this drug that is similarly effective but is less likely to target non-cancerous cells.
- It is tolerated well in rodents, and this drug and related drugs are worth exploring for treating this cancer type.