Scientists have developed a “groundbreaking” cancer drug that destroys all tumours, an early study showing promising results has suggested.
Codenamed AOH1996, the molecule in the pill has been shown to kill a mutated protein that helps cancer grow and multiply while leaving other cells undamaged.
This protein, called proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), was previously understood to be “undruggable”.
Researchers used the pill to treat 70 different cancer cells, including cells taken from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin, and lung cancer. Remarkably, the pill was effective against them all.
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