Timing of chemo may be key to best effectiveness

This research is still in the animal phases and I don’t usually like to report animal studies because so many of them don’t translate to human findings after all. But this one was particularly interesting.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that certain treatments that work  because of a particular enzyme in the body, work best when

Now, a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has suggested that treatment is most effective at certain times of day because of how certain enzymes may render the chemotherapy less effective. By timing the chemo when the enzymes are at their lowest levels in the body, the drug effectiveness may increase.

This idea isn’t new. Many researchers have suspected that timing plays a role in how effective chemo may be.

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