"Stanford University scientists have discovered a single drug that has killed or shrunk every kind of cancer tumor it has been used against — a new anti-cancer weapon that some have described as a kind of medical Holy Grail.
The drug blocks a protein produced in large amounts by cancer cells — called CD47 — that keeps the body’s immune system from fighting tumors. By shutting down the CD47 production, the new antibody drug effectively leaves cancer cells vulnerable to the body’s own natural defense mechanisms.
Tests of the drug found that it destroyed several kinds of human cancer cells transplanted into mice — including breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors — by prompting the rodents’ immune systems to kill the cancer cells."
As they say, "Faster, please!"
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has an anti-ps drug bavituximab that prompts the immune system to fight cancer and hopefully will soon be in phase III trials soon.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting to read comments on a message board about possible corruption and greed where one of their phase II trials is discussed wrt possible sabotage. With a market of a $1billion dollars a month on the line it wouldn't surprise me of someone attempting to stop an up and coming drug.
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