Making Cancer’s Metabolism More Normal Blocks Drug Resistance

August 23, 2018 • by Marc Airhart

A new combination of existing drugs reduces the size of cancerous tumors much more effectively than current treatments.

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Graph showing that a two-drug combination is better at slowing the growth of tumors than the same drugs separately

Mice bearing human breast cancer tumors that were given C1 had about 75 percent smaller tumors (pink) after two months than mice that were not treated (grey) and tumors half the size of the ones found in mice receiving the same drugs (Dox and DCA) separately (blue). Credit: Jenna Luecke/University of Texas at Austin.

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