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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

in research: Generic drug (Losartan) may improve the effectiveness of cancer nanotherapies



"Low doses of an inexpensive, FDA-approved hypertension medication may improve the results of nanotherapeutic approaches to cancer treatment. In a report in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describe experiments showing that the generic drug losartan, by modifying the network of collagen fibers that characterizes most solid tumors, improved the effectiveness of two nanotherapeutics against several types of cancer....."

"....Experiments with two nanotherapeutics – liposomes containing the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin and a virus designed to infect and destroy – showed that combining each treatment with losartan significantly reduced the size or delayed the growth of implanted tumors...."