Could Trump’s favorite COVID pill fight cancer? Hydroxychloroquine could tackle drug resistance in tumors and make chemo more powerful, study claims
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A thread was posted about that (HCQ/cancer treatment), jenny …
Malaria drug could combat chemotherapy-resistant head and neck cancers (HCQ overcomes cisplatin-resistant cancer!)
Medical Xpress / University of Pittsburgh / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ^ | Mar. 14, 2022 | Umamaheswar Duvvuri, M.D., Ph.D. et al
Posted on 3/14/2022, 8:14:23 PM by ConservativeMind
A new study suggests that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine inhibits pathways that drive resistance to the chemotherapy agent cisplatin in head and neck cancers and restores tumor-killing effects of cisplatin in animal models.
The findings pave the way for a clinical trial that combines cisplatin and hydroxychloroquine to treat chemotherapy-resistant head and neck cancers.
“When caring for patients with head and neck cancers, I often see chemotherapy fail. Cisplatin is a very important chemotherapy drug, but tumor resistance to cisplatin is a huge problem,” said co-senior author Umamaheswar Duvvuri, M.D., Ph.D. “My lab is interested in understanding the mechanisms of resistance so that we can find better ways to treat these patients.”
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Another reason TPTB don’t want this cheap, effective drug touted, I’m sure. 😡
Good to know.