From San Francisco, at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Drug therapies target tumors by killing rapidly dividing cells. Unfortunately, these treatments also knock out cells that grow hair. Scientists studying rats have now developed a medication that wards off this side effect of cancer therapy.
They smeared a compound called GW8510 on the skin of more than 100 newborn rats given chemotherapy.
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