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Cancer Therapy
Breast cancer drugs may slow growth of lung cancer
January 26th, 2006
A medical student conducting research on a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) fellowship and colleagues have managed to stop the growth of human lung cancer cells in mice with a class of breast cancer drugs called aromatase inhibitors. The findings suggest a new way to treat lung cancer in women - a group whose death rate from the disease is surging. The studies were reported in the December 15, 2005 issue of Cancer Research. "It was a natural progression of the work that had already been done linking estrogen and lung cancer," said Olga Weinberg, who delayed her fourth year at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine to work on the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-26)
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