New Treatment for Malignant Mesothelioma Kills Cancer ‘From the Inside Out’
The University of Vermont is about to start a first-in-human trial of a new kind of treatment for malignant mesothelioma. The new approach involves a drug called RSO-021. The drug works differently from other cancer therapies. It blocks the ability of cancer cells to manage their own waste products. It’s developers say the new treatment for malignant mesothelioma aims to kill cancer cells from the inside out. The concept for RSO-021 was first developed at the University of Vermont. Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the UK biotech company RS Oncology have tested the drug in mice with promising results. Human trials of RSO-021 will start soon in the UK. US patients will be recruited in 2022. …