Non-toxic Cancer Treatments, Discovered
May 3, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
All cancer treatments are toxic.
Period.
Though selective targeted therapies (selective in a sense that the treatment would only kill the cancer cells and spare the good ones) are under works, a non-toxic treatment would have been bliss.
With University of Kentucky’s newest discovery, non-toxic cancer treatments may soon be a reality.
The compound, dubbed UK-101, inhibits LMP2 while not attacking normal cells, indicating that it could be an effective cancer treatment that does not produce the kinds of unpleasant side effects reported by many patients currently treated with broadly acting proteasome inhibitors and chemotherapeutics.
The study findings have been reported in the April 30 issue of the academic journal Chemistry & Biology.
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