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Anti-depressant repurposed to treat childhood cancer – EurekAlert

A new study has found that a commonly prescribed anti-depressant may halt growth of a type of cancer known as childhood sarcoma, at least in mice and laboratory…

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IMAGE: Caitrín Crudden, former PhD student at the Department of Oncology-Pathology at Karolinska Institutet.
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A new study has found that a commonly prescribed anti-depressant may halt growth of a type of cancer known as childhood sarcoma, at least in mice and laboratory cell experiments. The findings, from researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas, ignite hope of novel treatment strategies against this disease….

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