Cancer
Promising drug combination may help those with ocular melanoma that has spread
Published in Drug Week, September 21st, 2007
The drugs -- decitabine, which can turn on certain genes in cancer cells, and interferon gamma, an immune system protein -- may work together to cause cancer cell death.
“Metastatic uveal melanoma, or melanoma that originates in the eye and spreads to other parts of the body, has been very difficult to treat, in fact there have been no effective therapies to date,” said Jared Gollob, M.D., a medical oncologist...
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Source: Drug Week (2007-09-21)
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