Cancer: Anticancer effects of alcohol abuse drug

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 17, 96 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrd.2018.10 Author: Sarah Crunkhorn Although the alcohol-aversion drug disulfiram (DSF) is effective against diverse cancer types in preclinical models, its mechanism of action remains unknown. Here, Skrott et al. analysed the Danish nationwide demographic and health registries, which revealed a reduced cancer-specific mortality when the use of DSF
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