Drug ‘attacks cancer stem cells’
OPS_admin | Aug 14, 2009 | Comments 0
OPS: Gee, and it’s happening in UK, which has a “Socialist” Health System
Drug ‘attacks cancer stem cells’ - BBC NEWS 
This is one of the biggest advances we have seen this year in this area of research -Dr John Stingl
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists.
In tests in mice, salinomycin killed breast cancer stem cells far more effectively than some existing drugs, and slowed tumour growth.
The drug, a farm antibiotic, has yet to be tested in humans, the journal Cell reports.
But UK experts warned a human version could be some years away.
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