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Early chemotherapy drug may protect against bowel cancer

(BBC News) UPDATED 2009-09-08

One of the earliest chemotherapy drugs, developed in the 1940s, may help protect people from bowel cancer. Researchers in the United Kingdom say that methotrexate is effective in killing cells with a faulty MSH2 gene--a gene that is known to increase the risk of bowel and some other cancers. The study's lead researcher says the discovery may be useful for people who have a genetic predisposition to developing bowel, stomach, ovarian, and kidney cancers. Read full story >

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