Cancer has a powerful new enemy, and it all seems to be thanks to a 9-year-old girl with a bright smile. Researchers have developed a drug containing a molecule called AOH1996 that “appears to annihilate all solid tumors” in preclinical studies – while leaving healthy cells intact. The drug AOH1996 is named after Anna Olivia Healey, a cancer patient from Indiana, USA, who was born in 1996. “I knew I wanted to do something special for this little girl,” Linda Malkas of City of Hope told the California, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the US, in a statement obtained by the New York Post. “She died when she was just 9 years old from neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that affects only 600 children in America each year.” Malkas met Anna’s family shortly before their little girl died in 2005 after a battle with cancer. “I met him […]
Source: News Beast
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