Doctor WatchDog Notification ServiceAccording to a new report in the recent issue of Clinical Cancer Research:
Researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute reported that a drug used as part of a regimen to treat HIV also appears to kill cancer cells.
The researchers came upon the idea of testing the HIV protease inhibitor nelfinavir and other protease inhibitors as cancer drugs, due to the fact that these drugs block Akt, a protein essential for the development of many types of cancer, including non-small cell lung cancer.
The researchers also reported that nelfinavir inhibited the growth of both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant breast cancer cells, indicating that it could be used to fight cancer cells that are resistant to common chemotherapy drugs. Additionally, nelfinavir may also be able to overcome resistance to radiation.
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U.S. National Cancer Institute reported that a drug used as part of a regimen to treat HIV also appears to kill cancer cells.
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