Scientists in new push to control cancer before curing itCancer scientists in Britain are launching what they call the world’s first “Darwinian” drug development program in a bid to get ahead of cancer’s ability to become resistant to even the newest treatments and recur in many patients. While not abandoning the search for an ultimate cure, the “anti-evolution” project will re-focus on turning cancer into a disease controllable with drugs for many years. This would be a little like HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the scientists told reporters at a briefing. SEE ALSO :Widow of ward rep wins seatResearchers hope a new class of APOBEC inhibitors could be developed and given alongside targeted cancer treatments to try and keep cancer at bay for much longer. Olivia Rossanese, a specialist in cancer drug discovery who will head the new centre’s biology team, said the idea was to build a global hub of expertise in anti-evolution therapies so scientists could “stop playing catch-up” with cancer.

Source: Standard Digital May 15, 2019 23:03 UTC