Can antibiotics be used to fight cancer?

One antibiotic, known as doxycycline, which is often used to treat acne, was particular promising - and it costs only around 10 Australian cents a day, ... read more

Unfortunately that 8 year old girl and her father aren't going to cure very many cancers with common antibiotics. Many things can kill cancer in test tubes and even nude mice. But they fail miserably in the clinic. There are antibiotic derived chemotherapies as mentioned by James Pan. read more

Along with his wife, cancer researcher Federica Sotgia, Lisanti decided to try out the hypothesis, and discovered that some of the cheapest and most widely-used antibiotics can kill off a range of cancer cells - without harming healthy tissue. read more

Antibiotics are cheap and readily available and if in time the link between their use and the eradication of cancer stem cells can be proved, this work may be the first step towards a new avenue for cancer treatment."This is a perfect example of why it is so important to continue to invest in scientific research. read more