SAN DIEGO
— A drug once envisioned as a treatment for established cancers might instead
help prevent the occurrence of colorectal cancer. Other work suggests the uses
for this old drug might extend to a deadly childhood brain cancer.
Scientists first synthesized the drug, DFMO, in 1979, but
since then it has developed a reputation as a jack of all trades and master of
few.
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