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Article: COLORADO STATE'S ANIMAL CANCER CENTER INVESTIGATES PROMISING DRUG COMBINATION TO TREAT BONE CANCER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 7, 2007
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Colorado State University issued the following press release:
The Colorado State University Animal Cancer Center is studying a promising combination of a new and an old cancer drug that may increase chemotherapy effectiveness without increasing unwanted side effects. The study may eventually be useful for the treatment of both human and animal cancer.
The center, which is seeking pet owners with dogs diagnosed with bone cancer to participate in the study, is combining a common chemotherapy drug, called doxorubicin or Adriamycin, with valproic acid, also called Depakote, a drug that previously has been used to treat seizures in dogs and humans. An enzyme called histone deacetylase, which ...