New Anti-Cancer Agents Show Promise For Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers
July 19th, 2011Title: New Anti-Cancer Agents Show Promise For Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers
Summary:Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer are more vulnerable to chemotherapy when it is combined with a new class of anti-cancer agent, researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown. ABT-737 is one of a new class of anti-cancer agents called BH3 mimetics that target and neutralise the so-called Bcl-2 proteins in cancer cells. Bcl-2 proteins act to ‘protect’ the cells …
Published on : Tue Jul 19 00:09:35 2011 GMT
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