Drugs developed to fight HIV can be effectively used to slow the growth of cancer cells, researchers in the US have found.
A group of researchers in the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, noticed that the toxic effects the HIV virus has on cells was similar to that seen in cancerous cells.
Nelfinavir -- a drug used against HIV -- is being tested on patients with a range of cancers in light of new evidence found by Phillip Dennis and his co-workers, according to a report in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
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