Scientists devise targeted therapy strategy for rare form of childhood cancer
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have caused cells in a rare, lethal form of cancer to begin behaving like normal cells -- one of the longest-standing, and most rarely achieved, goals of cancer research. When the approach was tested in a child with an advanced case of NUT midline carcinoma, for which there are no other effective treatments, it slowed the course of the disease for several months.