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"CHEO finds combining cancer treatments makes big difference"
CHEO finds combining cancer treatments makes big differencehttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cheo-finds-combining-cancer-treatments-makes-big-difference-1.2511964
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Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario have found two experimental cancer-fighting treatments work much more effectively when they’re combined.
Ottawa researchers had been looking at ways to combine current treatments as a faster way to develop therapies than starting from scratch, according to a CHEO news release.
Results published Monday in the journal Nature Biotechnology said a therapy discovered at CHEO 19 years ago, called SMAC Mimetics, works very well when combined with live-virus therapies — which is when a special virus is injected into a tumour to attack it.
The news release said while each therapy had been "working well" on its own, they hadn’t been yielding substantial results — until they were combined and their tumour-killing effect amplified, exceeding the expectations of CHEO’s most senior scientist.
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