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New drug ‘could boost effectiveness of chemotherapy’, developers say

From left professors James Spicer, Miraz Rahman and James Arnold who have developed a drug which they say can enhance how patients respond to chemotherapy (King’s College London/PA) - (KCL)

A take-at-home tablet could boost the way cancer patients respond to chemotherapy, according to the medical experts who developed it.

The drug, known as KCL-HO-1i, works by disarming a defence mechanism that tumours use to protect themselves.

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