Cancer drug: New treatment halts tumour growth
A drug that could stop cancer cells repairing themselves has shown early signs of working.
More than half of the 40 patients given berzosertib had the growth of their tumours halted.
Berzosertib was even more effective when given alongside chemotherapy, the trial run by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Royal Marsden NHS Trust suggested.
The trial was designed to test the safety of the drug.
The drug is the first to be trialled of a new family of treatments, which block a protein involved in DNA repair.
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