Hope Over Tumor-Killing Skin Cancer Drug

A possible method of skin cancer treatment has been detected, which entails overloading cancer cells with oxygen, causing them to die. The new drug STA-4783 contains chemicals which transport oxygen to the cancer cells and has no effect on normal, healthy cells. A study was conducted in which 28 patients with serious skin cancer were given the regular chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, and 53 patients received paclitaxel plus the new oxygen-delivering drug. On average, the patients who received both medications survived 4.2 months longer than those who received only the standard chemotherapy. This method of skin cancer treatment has the potential to be used as a cure for skin cancer. This is very exciting news since a cure has been sought after for quite some time. With all of the cancer research being conducted, a cure should be discovered before we know it.

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