A Cancer Cure?
Exactly how many times have we seen articles like this? (Ok probably never on Shack, but what the hell today we're just freakay!) Maybe
this is the good one though. Scientists have just developed a molecule (called icon)
that travels through a blood stream and kills the blood vessles that feed cancerous
tumors. Basically starving cancer to death. In addition it actually causes the cancers to
create more icon cells along the way causing a chain reaction. Thanks Jack you big lug!
The process eliminated human melanoma and prostate cancers in the tested mice. The first trials in people are planned for next year. Drugs that inhibit the growth of the blood vessels that feed cancer have received wide attention in recent years, though early results reported last spring showed less promise than had been hoped for. The new therapy, developed by researchers Alan Garen and Zhiwei Hu at Yale University, takes a different approach, attacking the cells lining the blood vessels in tumors rather than trying to prevent the growth of new blood vessels.
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