'A DRUG that makes cancer cells “commit suicide” could wipe out some of the most deadly forms of the disease.
And last night scientists said it could also prove highly effective against other, less virulent, types of cancer.
The radical new drug will bring fresh hope to patients with aggressive and deadly tumours and could be available in as little as five years.
It is thought the treatment, which would be delivered in pill form, has very few side effects.
There is also an added bonus in that tumorous cells are unlikely to become resistant, as is the case with current therapies.
The KG5 drug, created by a group of American scientists, is a new approach that works by stopping tumorous cells multiplying and they then shut themselves down.
Study leader Professor David Cheresh, of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, said the drug “blocks the function of proliferation” and the malignant cells commit suicide when they can’t multiply.' [Express]
