Potential cancer breakthrough: Scientists develop a drug that can block cancer-causing gene

Potential cancer breakthrough: Scientists develop a drug that can block cancer-causing gene An experimental drug has for the first time been shown to block a gene central to the growth of many cancers — in what could be a breakthrough. 

The treatment — known as OMO-103 — works by suppressing MYC, which orchestrates messages telling a cell to divide.

In a study of a dozen patients with various forms of hard to treat cancer, the drug was able to halt tumor growth in eight patients. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Omomyc as the first MYC-targeted therapy to successfully complete a phase I clinical trial Vall D'Hebron Institute of Oncology