'Smart drug' targets new mutation, dramatically shrinks aggressive sarcoma and lung cancer

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

A new oral drug caused dramatic shrinkage of a patient's rare, aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer that was driven by an abnormally activated protein, physician-scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report in the Oct. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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