Many everyday medicines used to treat diabetes, arthritis, alcoholism and other diseases, can kill cancer cells. To such conclusion the American scientists from the broad Institute and cancer Institute Dana-Farber.
the Experts decided to test the already developed drugs for anti-cancer properties and was amazed to find that almost 50 non-oncological drugs to fight cancer. Their research they published in the journal Nature Cancer.
the studies were able to establish that some of the tested drugs contributed to the suppression of cancer cells by activating previously unknown mechanisms.
“Understanding how these drugs kill cancer cells, the starting point for the development of new treatments,” — said Stephen Corsello, oncologist from the cancer Institute Dana-Farber.
