Drug used for cocaine addiction may pave way for new treatment of advanced colon cancer (IMAGE)

University of Ottawa

Drug used for cocaine addiction may pave way for new treatment of advanced colon cancer

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This new research published in Nature Cancer led by Dr. Yannick Benoit, Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Faculty of Medicine) at uOttawa, has revealed that vanoxerine plays an entirely unexpected mechanism in cancer.

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