Cancer Therapy

New way to stop cancer cell growth described

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 10th, 2002

A new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Pharmacy may lead to the development of a drug to stop the growth of cancer cells.

Dr. Lucio Miele, associate professor of biopharmaceutical sciences, and his team have developed a gene therapy approach as well as a potentially new use for a class of drugs known as GSIs, or gamma-secretase inhibitors, which are already under investigation as a treatment for Alzheimer disease.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, was described in an editorial in the journal Nature as being among the most important recent findings in cancer-targeting research.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-12-10)

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