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New drug to make child cancer cells 'self-destruct'Date: 03/10/2007 10:10:23
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A new drug being tested looks set to tackle various strains of cancer that often affect children.
Scientists at the University of Manchester carried out tests with the RH1 drug, finding it capable of killing tumour cells from neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.
Pre-clinical studies were claimed to have demonstrated a tendency of cancer cells to self-destruct under the effect of RH1, with the Manchester team claiming a 50 per cent increase in chances of killing cancerous cells with the drug.
A clinical phase of trial is now hoped for by the scientists, in order to further their belief that the drug helps to reactivate the suicide meachanism which normally leads damaged cells to kill themselves but in cancer is redundant.
Dr Guy Makin, the study's lead researcher, said: "We hope that this will be just the first of many new agents that we can show are useful for treating childhood cancer."
Child survival rates are above average for cancer, but it is hoped that the development of drugs like RH1 will help to further combat many vicious strains of the disease.
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