Health
Adverse effects from cancer drug trials explained – EurekAlert
Certain type of cancer drugs that promote the death of cells can actually be harmful if combined with other treatments that damage our DNA, RNA or proteins, researchers have found.
A team of researchers investigating how a certain type of drugs can kill cells has discovered that these drugs can do more harm than good when used in combination with other cancer treatments.
The researchers wanted to know more about how the drugs, which are called pan-Bcl-2 or Bcl-xL-specific inhibitors, help encourage cell death, specifically cells that have damaged RNA, DNA or proteins.
They had a hunch that chemical and physical factors that damage the DNA, RNA or proteins of otherwise he…
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