Husband and wife research team develop 'holy grail' drug to battle pancreatic cancer

[n2doc]

A husband and wife research team in Sydney has developed a drug that is almost ready to be tested on people inflicted with one of the hardest to treat cancers, pancreatic cancer.

Professors Jenny Gamble and Mathew Vadas say the drug, called CD5-2, has shown to work in animal experiments to slow tumour growth.

The drug targets the principal building blocks of blood vessels called endothelial cells.

The blood vessels in tumours are grossly abnormal and the drug works by naturally restoring the glue that binds the vessels together.

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http://www.9news.com.au/health/2017/07/27/21/11/husband-and-wife-research-team-develop-drug-to-battle-pancreatic-cancer

[Warpy]

1. I hope it pans out. I've lost a lot of people to that cancer

Heroics now can prolong life a little bit at the cost of ruining what's left.

[WePurrsevere]

2. Sounds wonderful. Hopefully this works even better than expected. nt

[Best_man23]

3. May this drug work

And if it does, I hope they release it to the world instead of allowing some pharma giant to buy it and then jack the price up to Saturn.

[Warpy]

4. Well, a pharma giant will buy it and do the large scale testing

which is extremely expensive. Even then, large scale testing can turn up flaws that weren't visible in small scale testing. The price will be high, especially if it's targeted to the one cancer, only.

[Duppers]

5. +100

Two people I loved died of this cancer, my uncle and a very liberal NASA scientist.