Colon Cancer

Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 20th, 2004

Drugs approved for treatment of specific maladies sometimes show unexpected benefits. Researchers at the 95th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research highlighted how a barbiturate may be useful for colon cancer patients.

The research was presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

A drug that acts as a "downer" on the central nervous system also works to suppress metastasis in an experimental model of colon cancer, according to researchers from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

The barbiturate Nembutal, or pentobarbital, is known to have similar effects in the...

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