BETHESDA, Md. — A drug used to deworm farm animals combined with a common cancer drug has been found to save the lives of patients who would have died from an advanced type of colon cancer, the National Cancer Institute announced today.
NCI Director Samuel Broder said that a national study involving about 1,300 patients with a stage-3 colon cancer showed increased survival rates for those treated with a drug called levamisole in combination with 5-fluorouracil, a cancer drug now in common use.
