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Anticancer drug may improve outcome for severe COVID-19 patients worldpharmanews
February 10, 2021
Treating severe COVID-19 patients with the anticancer drug bevacizumab may reduce mortality and speed up recovery, according to a small clinical study in Italy and China that was led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden between February ...
Closing the door: breaking new ground related to a potential anticancer drug target worldpharmanews
August 02, 2019
In order to sustain fast growth, cancer cells need to take up nutrients at a faster rate than healthy cells. The human glutamine transporter ASCT2 allows the amino acid glutamine to enter cells and is upregulated in many types of cancer cells ...
Anticancer drug nintedanib found to be effective against malignant pleural mesothelioma europeanpharmaceuticalreview
May 22, 2018
Researchers have found that nintedanib shows promising effectiveness in halting the growth of human malignant pleural mesothelioma in preclinical models.