Oncology

In the grueling quest for discovering more effective cancer treatment therapies, researchers every now and then come up with interesting breakthroughs, which flash rays of hope not only to the patients, but also for the drug manufacturers to capitalize upon the discoveries. A research team, at the Houston University, has recently claimed that they developed a drug, which can block cancer cells from leaving the pancreas and spreading to other organs. In essence, the drug will work as a targeted therapy that will bind cancer-causing genes to kill them, the researchers claimed. In the context of the effectiveness of the drug under development, one of the researchers said ...