Mar 30, 2015 9:00 am642 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - An experimental drug rapidly shrinks most tumors in a mouse model of human breast cancer, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When mice were treated with the experimental drug, BHPI, "the tumors immediately stopped growing and began shrinking rapidly," said University of Illinois biochemistry professor and senior author David Shapiro. "In just 10 days, 48 out of the 52 tumors stopped growing, and most shrank 30 to 50 percent."