New drug to cure cancer discovered

  • 05/05/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)

US scientists are excited by preliminary tests on mice that show that an experimental cancer treatment can kill tumours by cutting off supply to their blood stream, US media reports said on Monday. A study by Dr. Judah Folkman from Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts found that two drugs - angiostain and endostatin - eliminate tumours in mice with no apparent side effects and no resistance.