Queensland researchers reveal promising therapy that could treat the deadliest gynaecological cancer
A novel drug therapy which could potentially be used to treat ovarian cancer — among other types of cancer — is being developed by Queensland researchers.
A team of researchers at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have found the drug therapy kills tumour cells, while not harming normal cells.
The pre-clinical research published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal, showed the drug therapy inhibited specific proteins in model human tumour cells, allowing an increase in another protein, known as IL24, which kills the tumour cells.
This is a great news and big congratulations to the whole team for this achievement. It will give new hope to the patients to fight against this deadly disease. If they will successfully develop a blood test to detect ovarian cancer in early stages, then patients will get enough time to treat the disease. I wish all the best for the further research.
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