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Thu 04 Apr 2008Anti-tumour compound is a plastic panacea
DUBLIN CHEMISTS have converted a compound normally used in plastics manufacture into what could prove a very powerful anti-cancer drug. If all goes to plan, this compound, titanocene Y, could become the first successful chemotherapy agent against advanced kidney cancer.
The latest results from the research team at University College Dublin reveal that the compound doesn't just slow tumour growth, as indicated in previous tests - it dramatically shrinks existing tumours as well.
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