On-off dosing of cancer drugs does not help melanoma patients
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/dosing-cancer-drugs-does-not-help-melanoma-patients
Taking breaks from melanoma drugs didn’t slow the growth of patients’ tumors in a clinical trial (here, a malignant melanoma cell within skin tissue).
Drugs that home in on and block cell growth signals can dramatically shrink tumors, but all too often the cancer comes back. An attention-grabbing mouse study 7 years ago suggested that these targeted drugs would work better at shrinking melanoma tumors if cancer patients got a break from their medicine every few weeks.
On-off dosing of cancer drugs does not help melanoma patients
Apr 27, 2020, 4:18am UTC
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/dosing-cancer-drugs-does-not-help-melanoma-patients
> Taking breaks from melanoma drugs didn’t slow the growth of patients’ tumors in a clinical trial (here, a malignant melanoma cell within skin tissue).
> Drugs that home in on and block cell growth signals can dramatically shrink tumors, but all too often the cancer comes back. An attention-grabbing mouse study 7 years ago suggested that these targeted drugs would work better at shrinking melanoma tumors if cancer patients got a break from their medicine every few weeks.