'Cockle-chemo' breakthrough could hold answer to curing cancer

Cockles are just as effective as some chemotherapy drugs in curing cancer, new research has found.Sugars found in the small shellfish were "approximately as effective" as cancer drugs, biomedical scientists at the University of Salford in Manchester found."Cockle-chemo", as they called the process, could be particularly suitable for children because it is less toxic and less likely to cause unhealthy side effects, they said.