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Date Submitted:
12/09/07
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Drug developed for rare disease may help millions more as treatment for cancer, autoimmune diseases
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An anti-angiogenesis drug developed at the University of Michigan is showing promise in studies of three different disease families, including multiple forms of cancer. The drug, tetrathiomolybdate or TM, essentially wages war against copper, which serves to choke off tumor growth, fibrosis and inflammation.
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