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2003 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine presented data indicating that phenoxodiol, a synthetic anticancer compound manufactured by Novogen Limited, when added to low levels of standard chemotherapy agents, produces dramatic reductions in the size of human ovarian cancer tumors in animals.
The data were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The Yale researchers previously have shown that phenoxodiol was the most effective drug in the test tube in killing ovarian cancer cells that were resistant to standard chemotherapeutics. The new data is an important development in showing that this potent anticancer effect of phenoxodiol is retained in vivo.
In a further development, the Yale researchers also showed that phenoxodiol had the ability to render ovarian cancer cells more susceptible to the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Research: Combination chemotherapy reduces ovarian cancer tumor mass.