Thursday, 27 June 2013

USC research IDs potential treatment for HIV-related blood cancer

Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a promising new way to treat a rare and aggressive blood cancer most commonly found in people infected with HIV. The USC team shows that a class of drugs called BET bromodomain inhibitors effectively targets primary effusion lymphoma, a type of cancer for which those drugs were not expected to be effective. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Tolani B, et al. Targeting Myc in KSHV-associated primary effusion lymphoma with BET bromodomain inhibitors. Oncogene. 2013 Jun 24. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23792448

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