Twin-drug combo effectively shrinks lung cancers by blocking their "escape route"

04:46 EDT 4 Apr 2018 | Pharmafile

A study conducted by researchers at UT Southwestern’s Simmons Cancer Center has revealed that a combination of two specific drug varieties may offer an effective treatment for most kinds of lung cancer by blocking their use of the cytokine tumour necrosis factor (TNF) as an “escape route”.

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Compared to tumours which received a single or no treatment (top rows), the combination therapy was shown to much more effectively shrink tumours (bottom row). Credit: UT Southwestern

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Original Article: Twin-drug combo effectively shrinks lung cancers by blocking their "escape route"

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