Common asthma drug helps fight hard-to-treat cancers, including aggressive breast cancers, early study finds
livescience - Scientists found that blocking a protein best known for its role in asthma enhances cancer immunotherapy in preclinical models.
AI Summary: Early studies report that a widely used asthma medication can switch off a tumor immune‑evasion pathway and restore anti‑tumor immunity in models and early human data, improving responses in some hard‑to‑treat cancers including aggressive breast tumours. Researchers call for larger trials to confirm clinical benefit and safety.
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