Cancer

University of Murcia, Medical Department publishes research in cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 4th, 2009

According to a study from Murcia, Spain, "Melanoma is the most important skin cancer in terms of mortality, besides developing metastasis in about a third of the patients. Interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha), a highly toxic cytokine, tends to be one of the most important treatments for melanoma."

"Much effort is being directed at obtaining less-toxic antitumoral compounds, particularly natural compounds such as flavonoids. Our aim was to study the combined treatment of metastatic lung melanoma with IFN-alpha and diosmin in a murine model. In this article, we report the effect of a combined treatment of IFN-alpha and the flavonoid, diosmin, on a murine model of metastatic...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-08-04)

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