Breakthrough drug in cancer treatment… Destroys all tumors
Scientists have made a cancer drug that kills all cancer tumors while leaving other cells unharmed. They continue their work for cancer, which stands out as the disease of our time.
Scientists who are trying to reduce the deadly effect of the disease from the diagnosis to the treatment of cancer are going an important way in the treatment of the disease with a new drug they have found.
DRUG TARGETS PROTEIN FOUND IN MOST CANCERS
The drug was tested in the laboratory on 70 different cancer cells, including those derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin and lung cancer, and was effective against all of them. The pill is the culmination of 20 years of research and development work by the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles, one of the largest cancer centers in America. The new molecule in the drug that scientists have found targets a protein found in most cancers that helps tumors grow and multiply in the body.
As part of the latest study, published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology, the new drug was tested on more than 70 cancer cell sequences and several normal human cells that were not cancerous but were used as controls. The molecule selectively killed cancer cells by blocking the division of cells with damaged DNA and stopping the replication of faulty DNA.
NEW DRUG EXPECTED TO BE HOPE IN TREATMENT OF CANCER
The drug is currently being tested on humans in a Phase 1 clinical trial at City of Hope. A professor in City of Hope’s Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapy, is leading the team. The professor said the results so far were promising as the molecule was able to suppress tumour growth on its own.
A very young girl who died of cancer in 2005 at the age of nine, and her father play an important role in the creation of this new drug. The doctor was researching breast cancer at the time, but the girl’s father asked if she could do something about neuroblastoma and wrote a check for $25,000 to her lab. (Source: SÖZCÜ)
