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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nilima Marshall

New drug hope for children with primary bone cancer

A new drug that potentially works against all main types of primary bone cancer in children has been described by the scientists who developed it as “the most important drug discovery in the field” for nearly half a century.

Tests showed the medicine – called CADD522 – is able to block a gene associated with helping cancer spread in mice implanted with human bone cancer.

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