Lethal combination: Drug cocktail turns off the juice to cancer cells

(University of Basel) A widely used diabetes medication combined with an antihypertensive drug specifically inhibits tumor growth - this was discovered by researchers from the University of Basel's Biozentrum two years ago. In a follow-up study, recently published in Cell Reports, the scientists report that this drug cocktail induces cancer cell death by switching off their energy supply.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news