Chemotherapy

Freezing cancer cells makes them prime targets for anticancer drug, new study finds

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 11th, 2002

The answer to improving the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments may be in stopping the malignant cells cold.

Two researchers from the Institut Gustave-Roussy in France and the University of California (UC) Berkeley found that freezing cancer cells in test tubes made them far more vulnerable to attack by bleomycin, a potent anticancer drug also known by the brand name Blenoxane.

Cryosurgery - freezing cells to destroy them - and bleomycin are approved treatments currently used separately for cancer patients. But researchers of the study, published May 14, 2002, in the British Journal of Cancer, said that combining the two therapies may...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-06-11)

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