Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Researcher Finds Mold By-product Kills Multiple Myeloma

LOS ANGELES -- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have found that chaetocin, a by-product of a common wood mold, has promise as a new anti-myeloma agent. Results of their study, being presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, show the by-product to be more effective than currently used therapies at killing multiple myeloma cells. The complete findings are also available online in Blood. >>> Discuss This Story

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