The discovery of an antibiotic could help treat breast cancer

The doctors discovered that clofazimine could be used to treat breast cancer during the patient's chemotherapy to prevent its development and spread.

Professor Vladimir Kattniev, Director of the Laboratory of Natural Pharmaceutical Compounds of the Department of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Biomedical Medicine of the Russian Far East University, Professor of Medicine at the University of Geneva, has said that scientists from the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the Far East University and the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva in Switzerland, The opportunity to use the antibiotic "Clofazimin" used in the treatment of leprosy, in the treatment of intractable breast cancer during chemotherapy.

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"Until today, there appeared to be no drugs capable of inhibiting the Wnt signal pathway from which the tumor grew and spread, and was not found even during advanced clinical trials, but we clearly demonstrated in our study that this anti-leprosy drug can be used to stop cancer growth.Strong triple negative, we examined this in laboratory experiments on mice . "

This medication has minor side effects when used at the correct dose. "We hope that the results of our study will mark the beginning of large-scale clinical trials in the treatment of cancer."

Source: Novosti