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New Drug to Shrink Cancers

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A new drug, vistusertib, has been developed which can be applied when all other chemotherapy drugs do not work any more. In tests with patients with ovarian cancer and lung cancer, it stopped cancer cells from growing for 5.8 months on average. In some cases the cancer even shrunk considerably.

News seen at: BBC - Health