Coordinated surgical and drug treatment of cancer
Knock, F.E.; Galt, R.M.; Oester, Y.T.; Sylvester, R.; Haefliger, R.
International Surgery 61(5): 287-292
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0020-8868 PMID: 931681 Document Number: 99673
Normal cells can proliferate to heal wounds while cancer cells die from chemotherapy with selected sulfhydryl (SH) inhibitors. Choice of the drugs is directed by sensitivity tests run immediately after surgery on each patient's own cancer. The SH-bearing nonhistone chromosomal proteins were predicted to play a major role in regulating genes. Much recent work now suggests that these proteins may play a key role in controlling gene expression.