A New Type of Cancer Drug Shrinks Hard-to-Treat Tumors

Image credit: Keith Negley. Article by Jyoti Madhusoodanan. Scientific American – February 21, 2024.

New drugs called antibody-drug conjugates help patients with cancers that used to be beyond treatment

In the long and often dispiriting quest to cure cancer, the 1998 approval of the drug Herceptin was a tremendously hopeful moment. This drug for breast cancer was the first to use a tumor-specific protein as a homing beacon to find and kill cancer cells. […]

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