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New cancer drug 'shows promise'

July 7th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

BBC NEWS | Health | New cancer drug ‘shows promise’.

Researchers say a new type of cancer treatment has produced highly promising results in preliminary drug trials.

Olaparib is the first successful example of a new type of personalised medicine using a technique called “synthetic lethality” – a subtle way of exploiting the body’s own molecular weaknesses for positive effect.

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