Cancer's 'penicillin moment'? Gene targeting drug could herald 'end game' for disease | Mail Online

Is this cancer's 'penicillin moment'? Gene targeting drug could herald 'end game' for disease
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 1:40 AM on 16th September 2010

A pill that rapidly shrinks the most deadly of skin tumours has been hailed as the dawn of a new era in cancer treatment.
The finding has been likened to the discovery of penicillin.
Known as PLX4032, it is the first cancer drug to harness knowledge from the full decoding of human DNA, and has produced ‘spectacular’ trial results.


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