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Advanced Skin, Brain Cancers Improve With Experimental Hedgehog Drug

3rd September 2009 by admin 3 Comments

People with advanced skin and brain cancers — untreatable by current methods — improve after treatment with a new oral drug called a hedgehog inhibitor.
Hedgehog is one of the hottest new anticancer targets. During embryonic development and childhood, the signaling molecule nicknamed hedgehog spurs growth processes. But the body turns it off during adulthood. When [...]

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