A treatment that could change everything in the fight against brain cancer? This is what researchers at the Cancer Research Institute at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London believe have been found. A study conducted by their care shows that a drug could well give very interesting results.
In a study which is still on a very small scale, two patients saw their tumor shrink, or even almost disappear for one of them. The results, presented on April 10 at the annual congress of American Cancer Research Association (AACR), put the hopes of scientists in two substances, ipatasertib and aezolizumab.
Combined, they could help fight tumors more effectively. Ipatasertib works by blocking a protein known as Akt, which is known to be essential in the formation of cancer and metastasis. As a result, the tumor would be detached from the immune system, and would be more vulnerable to aezolizumab, already used to treat certain forms of cancer.
“A treatment that changes everything”
For Hamish Mykura, 59, the whole thing is a miracle. Indeed, as the story goes Guardian, after he was diagnosed with cancer, he joined the trial of this treatment since the chemotherapy and radiotherapy offered to him could not reduce the size of his tumor. 20 months after entering the study, examinations can no longer find any trace of the cancer, which seems to have disappeared.
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“We believe that our findings open the door to developments in what could be a life-changing treatment for some patients with glioblastoma brain cancer,” Dr. Juanita Lopez, in charge of the study, told British media.
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