News > Organic compounds called phenazines can kill cancer cells while leaving others unharmed, suggest scientists

Organic compounds called phenazines can kill cancer cells while leaving others unharmed, suggest scientists

06/08/2021 01:03 PM | Click to read full article

A new study published in the American Chemical Society Omega offers the hope of a cancer cure. It suggests a set of organic compounds called phenazines could be effective in targeting and killing cancer cells in the body while leaving healthy cells unharmed.

Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science are now hoping to take the findings of their study further by conducting animal studies and clinical trials to see if phenazinones, a category of phenazines, can be developed into anticancer drugs that can be widely used to reduce the heavy burden of this disease.

-