Existing drug that offers dormancy over death may be better for combatting cancer

Part of what makes cancer so formidable is its ability to spread around the body, so that doctors can rarely be completely sure they've killed it all. But that might not be the best way to go about treating the disease after all. Now researchers at Purdue University have identified a drug that could help keep cancer contained in a dormant state – and best of all, that drug is already on the market for other purposes.

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Category: Medical

Tags:

• Breast cancer
• Cancer
• Cells
• Drug
• Drugs
• Metastasis
• Purdue University

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2V18FI0