Lung Cancer

Old Drug Shows Promise for Helping Treat Advanced Disease

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 27th, 2001

Combining standard chemotherapy treatment with a drug once used to treat parasitic infections may give new hope to patients with lung cancer.

Researchers at Ohio State University found that small doses of the drug suramin enhanced the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy drugs used to treat patients with advanced forms of lung cancer.

The 12 patients in the study were treated with a combination of suramin and the chemotherapy drugs paclitaxel and carboplatin. After following the patients for an average of nine months, researchers found that the tumors had not progressed in eight of the patients. In fact, tumors had shrunk in seven of the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2001-11-27)

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